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[ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value
From:
mjd
Date:
February 7, 2000 10:46
Subject:
[ID 20000207.003] close for piped open sets $! to the wrong value
Message ID:
20000207184747.15035.qmail@plover.com
This is a bug report for perl from mjd@plover.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.
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This program runs /bin/false, a standard unix command, on a piped
open, then closes the filehandle. /bin/false is the program which
exits immediately with exit status 1. According to the manual:
If the file handle came from a piped open C<close()> will
additionally return FALSE if one of the other system calls
involved fails or if the program exits with non-zero status.
(If the only problem was that the program exited non-zero
C<$!> will be set to C<0>.)
[perlfunc/close]
Since /bin/false exited with non-zero status, $! should be set to 0.
However, it is instead set to the empty string.
#!/usr/bin/perl
open FH, "/bin/false |" or die "fork: $!";
print ">> $_" while <FH>;
my $rc = close FH;
my $errstr = defined($!) ? $! : "undefined";
$rc = defined($rc) ? $rc : "undefined";
print "close rc: ($rc); \$!: ($errstr); \$?: ($?)\n";
The output is:
close rc: (); $!: (); $?: (256)
If there is any version of Perl that has ever set $! to 0, I cannot
find it. Versions up through 5.003 set $! to `Illegal seek' (which I
guess is probably system-dependent) and versions 5.004 and later show
the behavior above.
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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:
Configured by mjd at Sun Jan 23 14:15:22 EST 2000.
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.2.12, archname=i586-linux
uname='linux plover 2.2.12 #10 mon nov 1 17:02:09 est 1999 i586 unknown '
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /shlib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
libc=/lib/libc.so.6, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl 5.00503:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
.
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Environment for perl 5.00503:
HOME=/home/mjd
LANG (unset)
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/home/mjd/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin/mh:/data/mysql/bin:/home/mjd/TPI/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/bin/bash