use strict; use warnings; $|=1; my $dh; sub tst { my $flag=shift; print "\n\n-----"; print "Provoking error\n" if $flag; mkdir "/tmp/bla"; sleep 1; opendir $dh, "/tmp/bla" or die "$!"; rmdir "/tmp/bla" if $flag; sleep 1; eval { print scalar readdir($dh); warn "--- $!" if $! and $! !~ /^File exists/; }; warn "--- $@" if $@; } tst($_) for 1,1,0,0;