Re: Cwd::abs_path behavior with non-existant paths

Quoth wb8tyw@qsl.net ("John E. Malmberg"):
> Before the 5.10 release, we were working on implementing an interface to 
> realpath() on VMS.
> 
> We discovered that the VMS behavior for non-existant paths was different 
> than on other platforms.
> 
> To get a fair sampling, could this test be run on a number of different 
> platforms to see what the consensus on the proper behavior should be.
> 
> perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('foo/non-existant.file')"
> 
> perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('/foo/non-existant.file')"
> 
> perl -mCwd -e "print Cwd::abs_path('non-existant.file')"

~% perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-freebsd-64int
[...]
~% perl -mCwd -le"print Cwd::abs_path('/foo/non-existant.file')" 

~% perl -mCwd -le"print Cwd::abs_path('foo/non-existant.file')" 

~% perl -mCwd -le"print Cwd::abs_path('non-existant.file')" 
/home/mauzo/non-existant.file
~% perl -mCwd -le"print Cwd::_perl_abs_path('/foo/non-existant.file')"
stat(/foo/non-existant.file): No such file or directory at -e line 1

~%

Same results with 5.10.0.

Ben

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• Cwd::abs_path behavior with non-existant paths by John E. Malmberg
• Re: Cwd::abs_path behavior with non-existant paths by Ken Williams
• Re: Cwd::abs_path behavior with non-existant paths by John E. Malmberg
• Re: Cwd::abs_path behavior with non-existant paths by Ben Morrow
• Re: Cwd::abs_path behavior with non-existant paths by John E. Malmberg