Perl ported to Cygwin bug report (-w)

[Charles S. Wilson]

Soren,
  I don't know if this will fix your problem, but you need to update to NT4 sp6a.
Service Pack 6 broke any number of programs due to some weird networking/socket bug,
but I don't remember all the details.

  Other than setting ntea (or ntsec) I don't remember why -w would fail. It's
possible something got fixed between the perl5.005_03 and perl5.005_62 releases for
cygwin-b20, because I don't see this behavior. I'd recommend downloading and
installing the later version if you can -- it's at http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ .
OTOH, if you update to the more recent cygwin snapshots, then the latest precompiled
perl is perl5.5.640 (aka perl5.6 beta0), also available at cygutils.

--Chuck

Soren Andersen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using a Perl that's been ported to Cygwin, I am sure I remember that
> the prebuilt Win32 (Cygwin) binary i installed was pointed-to from
> Cygwin's site or an associated site list of port projects. sorry  don't have the
> specific URL.
>
> In this Perl, the -w (writable yes|no) file test operator is broken -- it always
> returns null on any file. [As a consequence I cannot run the important Perl
> module CPAN.pm to extend Perl conveniently). I am running NT4 sp6.
>
> If anyone knows anything about this I'd appreciate hearing from them.
>
>      soren andersen
>
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