From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:10:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Git.pm: better error message
Message-ID: <20100614071046.GA5639@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1276477222-21465-1-git-send-email-book@cpan.org>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 03:00:22AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:

> -d doesn't set $! if the directory doesn't exist

Really?

  $ perl -e '-d "bogus" or die "fail: $!"'
  fail: No such file or directory at -e line 1.

On the other hand:

  $ touch file
  perl -e '-d "file" or die "fail: $!"'
  fail:  at -e line 1.

So perhaps it is best not to rely on $!. Also, this is with perl 5.10.
Is it different with other versions?

-Peff