X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48A3015C.6070009@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:44:28 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl - finding files that don't exist? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Paul Mallas wrote: > I am not sure where this issue should sits - is it a perl problem or a > cygwin problem or windows? Not sure - but I have noticed just after > cygwin upgrade. > > Perl seems to be finding files that don't exist: > > $ ls -a > ./ ../ Babel.pm > > $ perl -e 'print (-f "./PRN.pm")' > 1 > > $ perl -e 'print (-e "./PRN.pm")' > 1 > > $ perl -e 'print (-e "./PR.pm")' > > > PRN.pm is reserved device in windows. You can't create a file with this > name in WinXP. But perl says the file exists now and it did not seem to > exhibit this behaviour before. Cygwin has always recognized these devices because the underlying Windows APIs do. Try "ls PRN" anywhere. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/