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* On Wed, May 07 2008, Gisle Aas wrote:
> I had some production code using File::Path::mkpath() that started to
> misbehave after upgrading to perl-5.10. The bug is demonstrated with
> the following script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use File::Path qw(mkpath);
> print "$File::Path::VERSION\n";
> mkpath("foo", !shift, 0755);
> rmdir("foo");
>
> This script will create a directory called "493" in the current
> directory if invoked with 1 as argument. This did not happen with
> perl-5.8 and earlier.
Very interesting! For some reason I've had a directory called "436"
showing up in my homedir from time to time. For some reason, I
suspected Gnus... but maybe it's something perlish. I upgraded to 5.10
and started using Gnus at about the same time, so it's possible that
Perl is the cause but my brain assumed Perl wouldn't do something like
this :)
Anyway, thanks for pointing this out. My understanding of the universe
is slightly more complete :)
Regards,
Jonathan Rockway
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