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Re^3: Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?

by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit)
on Feb 15, 2011 at 07:49 UTC ( #888148=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?
in thread Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?

Most likely, your Perl is too old.

From perldelta of 5.8.8:

  • chdir, chmod and chown can now work on filehandles as well as filenames, if the system supports respectively fchdir , fchmod and fchown , thanks to a patch provided by Gisle Aas.

See also Re^2: Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?


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Re^4: Why doesn't chmod work on this lexical filehandle?
by williff (Initiate) on Feb 15, 2011 at 15:23 UTC

    Yes! This is the problem. Our default perl at /usr/local/bin/perl is a symlink to 5.8. When i pointed to the latest version installed, which was 5.10.1, then the code works great. Thank you. And thanks to all Perl Monks sharing their wisdom and debug tips.

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