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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:13:53AM -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> whispered
> :
> | On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:42:48PM -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> | > I don't see this in bleadperl, so presumably whatever happened in 5.6.0
> | > will be fixed in 5.6.1.
> | >
> | > -spp
> |
> | The strange thing is that there are only three patches touching
> | File::Path since 5.6.0 and none of them look like candidates
> | for changing the below functionality.
>
> The change isn't to File::Path, it is to the core. The original question
> stated that (builtin) mkdir("..../") didn't work, but (builtin)
> mkdir("....") did work. Both work in bleadperl, so the change to
Well, there's no (documented) change to the builtin mkdir(), either.
Sounds more like an operating system difference to me: how does one's
mkdir(2) work with trailing slashes.
> File::Path isn't necessary. Actually, changing File::Path was probably
> wrong in the first place.
>
> -spp
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