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On Tue Jan 15 00:10:56 2002, jamie wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from jamie@shareable.org,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
>
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>
> I use the following code to generate file handles, as per the perlref
> manpage:
>
> local *FILE;
> open FILE, "<blahblah" or die "Error opening \`blahblah': $!\n";
> return *FILE{IO};
>
> For the most part, this has the same effect as returning *FILE, and
> seems cleaner. The perlref manpage seems to recommend this, although
> the perlfaq5 page seems to prefer the *FILE approach.
>
> Although this works fine with functions like `read', `write',
> `sysread'
> etc., it generates an unexpected result with `stat', `lstat' and the
> `-X' file test operators.
>
> Specifically, when one of these *FILE{IO} references is used in the
> file
> test functions, including `stat' and `lstat', it's converted to a
> string
> (i.e. "IO::Handle=IO(0x12345678)"), and that is used as the file name
> to
> test.
>
> On the other hand, when a typeglob *FILE is used in a file test
> function, the fstat() system call is used on the open file as
> expected.
>
> Is this a code discrepancy or something that should be documented in
> the
> perlfunc manpage?
>
> Cheers,
> -- Jamie Lokier
>
Sorry about not responding to this earlier. This problem has been fixed
with change #28628.
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