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Id: 14393
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CGI
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Requestors: william [...] knowmad.com
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  Wed Aug 31 23:56:16 2005 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Typo in find_tempdir()
Hi Lincoln, Unless I'm mistaken, there appears to be a missing $ in the loop which clears out entries in $TMPDIRECTORY that are not directories and are not writeable. This occurs at line 3777 in v3.10: do {$TMPDIRECTORY = $_; last} if -d $_ && -w _; The last _ looks like it should be $_. William
  Tue Apr 21 22:27:15 2009 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Wed Aug 31 23:56:16 2005, guest wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi Lincoln, > > Unless I'm mistaken, there appears to be a missing $ in the loop which > clears out entries in $TMPDIRECTORY that are not directories and are > not writeable. This occurs at line 3777 in v3.10: > > do {$TMPDIRECTORY = $_; last} if -d $_ && -w _; > > The last _ looks like it should be $_.
William, This is not a bug, but an uncommon perlism. It's explained in "perldoc -f -w" Search in that document for "any of the file tests" and start reading from there. In this context, "_" will work the same as "$_", but according to the documentation will be faster, due to a saved system call.
  Tue Apr 21 22:27:16 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Apr 21 22:42:41 2009 WMCKEE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi Mark, Thanks for the lesson. Closing this ticket. William -- Knowmad Technologies http://www.knowmad.com
  Sun Jul 19 20:02:23 2009 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Fri May 23 14:28:30 2014 The RT System itself - Queue changed from CGI.pm to CGI