2010/8/17 Nellis, Kenneth <kenneth.nel...@acs-inc.com>: >> 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.
Sure. You need a recent cygwin snapshot to get it fixed. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00049.html http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ $ [ -e //server/junk ] && date $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ATGRZWN503050 1.7.6s(0.230/5/3) 20100816 13:53:13 i686 Cygwin -- Reini Urban -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
