| Subject: | Regression: io->file->assert creates directory instead of file since at least 0.50 |
| Date: | Tue, 31 Dec 2013 03:03:24 +0100 |
| To: | bug-IO-All [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Axel Beckert <abe [...] debian.org> |
Hi,
Spork's test suite fails since at least IO-All's 0.50 release, see
http://bugs.debian.org/730895
I suspect that the relevant change was introduced in 0.47, but I've
just tested 0.46 (works), 0.50 (fails), and 0.51 (fails, too) so far.
Reason for Spork's test-suite failing (inside Spoon::Installer code
btw.) is the following (undocumented and hence likely unwanted)
regression:
According to the POD, io->file "sets the type of the object to file
and sets the pathname of the file if provided".
But the following code (taken from "perldoc IO::All"'s "create-cat-to"
example) running in an empty directory generates a directory instead
of a file in at least 0.50 and 0.51:
$ ls -l; echo foo | perl -MIO::All -e 'io("-") > io->file("bar")->assert'; ls -l
total 0
Can't open file 'bar' for output:
Is a directory at -e line 1.
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 abe abe 0 Dec 30 23:51 bar/
$
With IO-All 0.46, this worked fine:
$ ls -l; echo foo | perl -MIO::All -e 'io("-") > io->file("bar")->assert'; ls -l
total 0
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 4 Dec 30 23:56 bar
$
Interestingly, this doesn't happen if I remove the assert method call --
then it works as expected (example from version 0.50 again):
$ ls -l; echo foo | perl -MIO::All -e 'io("-") > io->file("bar")'; ls -l
total 0
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 abe abe 4 Dec 31 00:21 bar
$
This issue is tracked in Debian at http://bugs.debian.org/733680
Regards, Axel
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