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Re^3: Testing for readdir failure

by Laurent_R (Canon)
on Apr 21, 2013 at 14:54 UTC ( [id://1029771]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Testing for readdir failure
in thread Testing for readdir failure

Well it does seem to populate $! in at least some cases. I have an empty directory called "foo": 

$ perl -e 'opendir DIR, "foo" or die "$!"; @c=readdir DIR; print "@c\n
+"; closedir DIR; @c=readdir DIR or die "$!"'
. ..
Bad file descriptor at -e line 1.

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I also got the following $! error in my quick tests under the debugger: 

  DB<8> @c = readdir DIR or die "$!"
Illegal seek at (eval 12)[/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/perl5db.pl:638] line 2.

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