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in reply to Spurious "Invalid Argument" on file open

What do you get from $^E?:

if(-e $rule_file) {
   if(open(my $rule_fh,'<',$rule_file)) {
     ....
   } else {
     die "Can not read file $rule_file : $! / $^E";
   }
 }

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