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Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> * 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 :)
Hmm. Sorry about that. I'm working on a more robust approach that will
put an end to all this.
Thanks,
David
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