On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:21:49 +0200, "Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/6/4 Robert Norris <rob@cataclysm.cx>: > > Hi porters, > > > > Here's a patch that makes stat() and the -X file test ops work on tied > > handles. It was made against blead but applies cleanly to maint-5.10. > > > > It adds three methods to the tied object interface: > > > > * STAT, called by stat() and most of the file test ops > > * ISATTY, called by -t > > * ISBINARY, called by -B and -T > > That's very interesting and I shall consider it for inclusion. I'm > waiting a bit for comments from the list though (I'm not personally a > heavy user of tied filehandles.) I'll look a bit closer at the > implementation too. ++ from me too. If you're into Tied File Handles, maybe you can have a look at the TODO items too :) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next