Re: why I will not use ActiveState again

[Anonymous Monk]

That same change to file-path also causes breakage in the rmtree of files across SMB/CIFS shares. Previous to this patch, there was no issue. Not to mention that the patch applied doesn't exclude Windows from it as a platform.

I tried the following experiment:

1. Add a variable: my $Is_Windows = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
2. Wrap the two race/exploit checks in if (!$Is_Windows).

The AS patch was sloppy at best, careless at worst. Windows doesn't use GNU Fileutils, as far as I know.

[lowmagnet]

Sent a message to the owner of AS bug #45042.

[lowmagnet]

I posted the above message. New to the perlmonks site, and created the new user in another tab. Sorry.