Re: Existence check fails on Cygwin Perl

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

On Aug 17 10:47, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 17 August 2010 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 17 10:54, Lemke, Michael ÂSZ/HZA-ZSB2 wrote:
> >> On 17 Aug 2010 10:20:41 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >On Aug 16 18:13, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >> >> $ 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) {
> >> >> Â print "true\n"
> >> >> } else {
> >> >> Â print "false\n"
> >> >> }
> >> >> $ perl test.pl
> >> >> true
> >> >> $ cqperl test.pl
> >> >> false
> >> >> $
> >> >
> >> >I can not reproduce your problem. ÂI used "\\\\server\\path\\file"
> >> >unchanged, as well as valid server and share names and just a
> >> >non-existant file name. ÂIn both cases the script prints "false".
> >> >And it prints "true" for an existing file, just as expected.
> >>
> >> Hm, I can reproduce it and it's even simpler, no perl involved:
> >>
> >> pc> [ -e //server/junk ] && date
> >> Tue Aug 17 10:28:14 WEDT 2010
> >> pc> ls -ls //server/junk
> >> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 lemkemch Domain Users 0 Dec Â1 Â2006 //server/junk
> >>
> >> Here's no server called server.
> >
> > I can't reproduce, but I'm already running Cygwin 1.7.6. ÂI have a vague
> > memory that we already had a report along these lines and that I patched
> > this at one point... ÂI *think* that's what is successfully hidden
> > behind the "Fix erroneous handling of devices in path checking." message
> > in the announcement...
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00049.html

Oh, right, thanks.  I have to refurbish my memory, I guess.


Corinna

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