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Re: /svn/athena r23064 - trunk/debathena/scripts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sat Jul 12 23:19:14 2008

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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:18:29 -0400


On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Timothy G Abbott wrote:

> It possible that this is worth reporting as a bug in perl's Tempfile  
> (in theory, it should be using the access system call, not doing its  
> own check).

I thought Perl always did its own check?  I have long had to include  
"use filetest 'access';" when using file test operators in Perl on any  
files in AFS.   Or were you saying that in this particular case  
(tempfile) it should be using access()?

-Jon

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