Re: Existence check fails on Cygwin Perl

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 16 18:13, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>  This is strange. I usually tend to use Cygwin's Perl as it is more
> full featured and works well but there are times when I am forced to
> use "cqperl" - a Perl that comes with Rational Clearquest - at my
> clients. Here it seems that Cygwin's Perl utterly fails the test
> where as cqperl - a derivative of ActiveuuState - works.
> 
> This is using the existence check (-e) for a file. The file happens
> to be on a share thus we are using UNC notation. It doesn't even
> matter if "server" is a real server or not, nor whether the share
> and path exist. Use anything you like. In fact use "server" and
> "path" and "file". Either way Cygwin's Perl reports that the file
> exists even when it doesn't, or the path is wrong or even if the
> server does not exist!
> 
> $ cat test.pl'
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> 
> # Obviously non-existant server and file
> my $file = "\\\\server\\path\\file";
> 
> # Check for existance returns true for Cygwin - false for ActiveState
> if (-e $file) {
>   print "true\n"
> } else {
>   print "false\n"
> }
> $ perl test.pl
> true
> $ cqperl test.pl
> false
> $

I can not reproduce your problem.  I used "\\\\server\\path\\file"
unchanged, as well as valid server and share names and just a
non-existant file name.  In both cases the script prints "false".
And it prints "true" for an existing file, just as expected.

BLODA?


Corinna

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