Re: [Module::Build] Re: [Module-build-checkins] [svn:Module-Build] r5891 - in Module-Build/trunk: . lib/Module/Build

[demerphq <dem...@gm...>]

On 4/12/06, Ken Williams <ke...@ma...> wrote:
>
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
>
> > Ken Williams wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >> I wonder whether we should check for executability with "-x $file"
> >> rather than "(stat $file)[2] & 0111".  Besides being simpler, it
> >> seems like it might DTRT on more platforms, where stat values
> >> might be nontrustworthy.
> >
> > You mean like so:
> >
> >  $mode =3D 0444 | ( -x $file ? 0111 : 0 );
>
> Yup, I'll make the change.

Seems to me that if -x and stat with the appropriate mask arent
returning the same thing you have a bug in Perl. The only situation in
blead where Im not sure that they will be identical is VMS, otherwise
from what i can tell the -X tests are just perl doing the appropriate
masking for you. Where stat doesnt behave correctly Perl fakes it. Or
at least from what I can tell it /should/.

Do you guys actually have evidence that they are different somewhere?
Have I missed something in the docs?

Cheers,
Yves

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