> From: Corinna Vinschen > On Aug 16 18:13, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > This is strange. I usually tend to use Cygwin's Perl as it is more > > full featured and works well but there are times when I am forced to > > use "cqperl" - a Perl that comes with Rational Clearquest - at my > > clients. Here it seems that Cygwin's Perl utterly fails the test > > where as cqperl - a derivative of ActiveuuState - works. > > > > This is using the existence check (-e) for a file. The file happens > > to be on a share thus we are using UNC notation. It doesn't even > > matter if "server" is a real server or not, nor whether the share > > and path exist. Use anything you like. In fact use "server" and > > "path" and "file". Either way Cygwin's Perl reports that the file > > exists even when it doesn't, or the path is wrong or even if the > > server does not exist! > > <snip> > > I can not reproduce your problem. I used "\\\\server\\path\\file" > unchanged, as well as valid server and share names and just a > non-existant file name. In both cases the script prints "false". > And it prints "true" for an existing file, just as expected. > > BLODA? > > > Corinna
FWIW, I was able to reproduce the OP's results, both with Cygwin's Perl 5.10.1 and cqperl v5.8.6. I hadn't had any BLODA issues to date. --Ken Nellis
