At 11:57 AM 5/24/2001 +0100, BAZLEY, Sebastian wrote:
>Just noticed (Perl 5.005_3 PCSI kit) that
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>-e "NL:" and -z "NL:" are true, however
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>-r "NL:" is false, as is -w "NL:"
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>though NL: is both writable and readable ...
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>The equivalent on WinNT (NUL) and OSF1 (/dev/null) return TRUE for -e, -r,
>-z, and -w, as I would expect.
>
>I think that it would be better to agree with the other OSes.
>
>What do others think?
I'd agree with that, but that'd require twiddling the source a bit. (Like
that's a big deal... :) The problem is that some of the VMS library
functions are returning this result--we don't special case NL: or anything,
we just call sys$check_access. It isn't entirely simple, since you need to
alter the functions that check access via file descriptor. (No sense
returning writable for a check by name and later say we can't write to a
filehandle open on the file we just said was writable by name...)
Dan
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