Re: perl -r says readable dir is unreadable

["Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna at efn dot org>]

On Sat, April 25, 2009 9:37 pm, Mikel Ward wrote:
> The key is that the -r (file is readable) operator returns false for
> directories that I CAN read.  "test" and "ls" prove that I can read them.

-r does not test to see if you can read a file, it tests whether the mode
gives you read access to the file.

> $ ~/bin/pstat /c/WINDOWS
> mode = 16888

(= 040770) And it does not.

This may help:  use filetest "access";
(see http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/filetest)

but the only guaranteed cross-platform way to see if you can read a file
is to try to read it.


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