text_combined: mark overmeer aanmovermeernet nicholas clark suqhccl4org 071021 2053 wed oct 17 2007 102258am 0200 mark overmeer wrote apparently rwxrwx implemented filetest set _ anymore perl588 fri oct 19 2007 022026am 0200 andreas j koenig wrote change 19392 gblkosh 20030503 053304 salvage use filetest access compiletime runtime seems jarkko actually fixed bug id infer access wasnt called expected would oh thats good reason patch explain things dont believe current behaviour behavioural bug documentation could clearer however documented _ set last stat documented filetest rwxrwx use access rather mode bits file well perldoc f stat says stat passed special filehandle consisting underline stat done current contents stat structure last stat lstat filetest returned read filetest perl5100 hence one need call stat perl implementation efficiency documented many places perl prefers qualilty performance would even say use filetest default platforms support support acls file test behavioral change use filetest given somewhere else file least unexpected errorprone hand whole use w r x avoided general open write handle failure otherwise get race conditions actual number accessstat doubles good code minimal rare case need use r think checking filesystem structure think current behaviour preferable changed rwxrwx also call stat well access give everyone inefficiency cant avoid whereas current behaviour merely caveat emptor anyone wishing take advantage _ filehandle im curious modern unix system decent os caching much calling stat really save probably extra context switch known many simple use makes regards markov mark overmeer msc markov solutions aanmovermeernet eqsqxtwldovermeernet httpmarkovermeernet httpsolutionsovermeernet wed 06 aug 2008 230249 0200 perl 46463 filetests sometimes set _