[perl #51410] File::Glob fails to set error

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.
> 
> 
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> [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,

Bram

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