On Tue Mar 04 09:15:29 2008, nicholas wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from nick@ccl4.org, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.11.0. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please enter your report here] > > Test 6 of ext/File/Glob/t/basic.t fails sometimes for me. > It's a test that creates a directory which is unreadable, then tries > to glob > it, to make sure that the error gets returned. > > It basically does this: > > $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::Glob=:glob -wle 'mkdir "Pie", 0; my @a = > bsd_glob("Pie/*", GLOB_ERR); print GLOB_ERROR, " >@a<"; rmdir > "Pie"' > 0 >< > $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::Glob=:glob -wle 'mkdir "Pie", 0; my @a = > bsd_glob("Pie/*", GLOB_ERR); print GLOB_ERROR, " >@a<"; rmdir > "Pie"' > 0 >< > $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::Glob=:glob -wle 'mkdir "Pie", 0; my @a = > bsd_glob("Pie/*", GLOB_ERR); print GLOB_ERROR, " >@a<"; rmdir > "Pie"' > -2 >< Would it be a good idea to expand the test to try it a number of times? (so that it can be picked up by the smoke reports if it, occasionanly, fails on other platforms) Kind regards, BramThread Next