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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:00:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Problem with the "-r" test in Perl 5.8.6-4
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mar 10 20:44, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble with Perl 5.8.6-4 under Cygwin 1.5.12.
> > [snip]
> > $ perl -e 'exit !(-r $ARGV[0])' /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/ThinkPad/Utilities && echo "yep"
> > $ test -r /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/ThinkPad/Utilities && echo "yep"
> > yep
> >
> > Is this behavior by design, or does perl actually check ACLs and something
> > is wrong with my installation?
>
> It looks like perl is using a homebrew test instead of using access(2).
> At least that would explain the behaviour.

Yeah, that's what I thought too.  Gerrit?
	Igor
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