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Re: -l on win32, VMS etc Was: [perl #72028] execute permissionmissing from some utils

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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
April 14, 2014 10:44
Subject:
Re: -l on win32, VMS etc Was: [perl #72028] execute permissionmissing from some utils
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20140414104333.GE18018@iabyn.com
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 01:37:46PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 08:18:47PM +0000, Zefram wrote:
> > I'd be inclined to make the chmod conditional on $^O =~
> > /\A(?:MSWin32|VMS)\z/.  If that breaks it for some OS of which we
> > know even less, presumably we'll get a bug report identifying the OS.
> > Flawed though this approach is, by fixing the module for all Unices we'd
> > immediately make it qualitatively much less buggy.
> 
> I've now pushed something similar as smoke-me/davem/ext-install.

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