Re: perl -r says readable dir is unreadable

2009/4/26 Mikel Ward: > Sorry. > > Found this > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00488.html > > Apparently it's been an issue since at least Perl 5.8.6 in 2005, but > probably longer. Oops. I'll to fix that and get it into perl core. Right now I'm on a business trip in Berlin, so it will

Re: perl -r says readable dir is unreadable

Sorry. Found this http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00488.html Apparently it's been an issue since at least Perl 5.8.6 in 2005, but probably longer. On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Mikel Ward wrote: > Hi > > I'm having problems with a Perl script that works fine on Linux. > > The key

Re: perl -r says readable dir is unreadable

On Sat, April 25, 2009 9:37 pm, Mikel Ward wrote: > The key is that the -r (file is readable) operator returns false for > directories that I CAN read. "test" and "ls" prove that I can read them. -r does not test to see if you can read a file, it tests whether the mode gives you read access to th