From: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:19:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Git.pm: better error message
Message-ID: <20100614091916.GB31387@swoosh>
In-Reply-To: <20100614071046.GA5639@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 03:10:46AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 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?

Come to think of it, it probably makes sense: -d probably depends on stat
to get the information about the file, and that fails harder when the
file in question doesn't exists.

I guess the best would be to put the directory name in the error message
(always interesting information), and keep $! in case it was set by an
harder error.

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

 There is no solution to a problem of sheer greed.
                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #94 (Epic))