Re: [htmltmpl] HTML::Template and filesystem ACL's

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Sam Tregar wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, S=E9bastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
>
>> perlfunc recommends to C<use filetest 'access';> for better results=20=

>> when
>> running on a filesystem with ACL support. The filetest pragma seems=20=

>> to be
>> available since Perl 5.6.
>
> Is it lexical, or could a user use the pragma in their code and fix
> HTML::Template's file tests?

According to the doc, this pragma is lexical.

>> But IIRC, the Cookbook recommended to forget all the -X tests (where=20=

>> X =3D~
>> /[rwxo]/i) and simply open() the file then test after the error code.

In fact, this remark is in the doc of the filetest pragma.

> I think I'd take a patch in that direction, provided it produced the
> same quality of error checking.

Looking at the code, it seems it's even simpler that this: it's just=20
that you used -r to test if a file if still present on the filesystem=20
instead of -f or -e.

Attached is the patch against version 2.7 to correct that.