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[perl #8244] *FILE{IO} does not behave like *FILE for stat() and -X() operators

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From:
Steve Peters via RT
Date:
July 27, 2006 17:43
Subject:
[perl #8244] *FILE{IO} does not behave like *FILE for stat() and -X() operators
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-1734-1154047423-1957.8244-15-0@perl.org
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.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please enter your report here]
> 
> 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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