Re^3: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).

[SimonClinch]

in reply to Re^2: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).
in thread Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).

I was addressing assigning to it as being the main issue, but I wouldn't negate it either as a general rule, because it certainly doesn't have to be numeric.

[jpl]

If that were the case, then $ERRNO should not say

If used numerically, yields the current value of the C errno variable

and

You can assign a number to $! to set errno

The OP did nothing unreasonable. ikegami has settled the matter, in my opinion. It was a bug, it has been fixed.

[SimonClinch]

Yes it does say that in the 5.14 documentation. I don't remember what it used to say - but OK then you're right.