Re: Intermittent bug in module: File not getting deleted as expected

[haukex]

In addition to what stevieb said about the -M test, which does seem a likely candidate (remember it depends on the behavior of the filesystem), I also see you aren't checking unlink for success or failure. For the former issue, you might want to add some kind of "force" parameter to cleanup to skip the -M test overall and just delete all files, that way the test will be more deterministic.

[stevieb]

Good catch on the unlink checking, I had completely overlooked that. In cleanup(), OP should be doing something like:

if (-M $file >= $age){
    unlink $file or die "can't delete the damned file!: $!";
}

...even if your suggested "force" param is introduced.