Re: [PATCH 4/4] t0021: fix filehandle usage on older perl

> On 02 Nov 2016, at 19:23, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> The rot13-filter.pl script calls methods on implicitly
> defined filehandles (STDOUT, and the result of an open()
> call).  Prior to perl 5.13, these methods are not
> automatically loaded, and perl will complain with:
> 
>  Can't locate object method "flush" via package "IO::Handle"
> 
> Let's explicitly load IO::File (which inherits from
> IO::Handle). That's more than we need for just "flush", but
> matches what perl has done since:
> 
>  http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/15e6cdd91beb4cefae4b65e855d68cf64766965d
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> I see J6t solved this a week ago using "FileHandle". These days that is
> basically a compatibility synonym for IO::File. I think both should be
> available pretty much everywhere, so I went with IO::File for the
> reasons above. But if that doesn't work for some reason, switching to
> "use FileHandle" should be OK, too.
> 
> I don't have an old enough perl easily available to test it either way.
> 
> t/t0021/rot13-filter.pl | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t0021/rot13-filter.pl b/t/t0021/rot13-filter.pl
> index e3ea58e1e..4d5697ee5 100644
> --- a/t/t0021/rot13-filter.pl
> +++ b/t/t0021/rot13-filter.pl
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> +use IO::File;
> 
> my $MAX_PACKET_CONTENT_SIZE = 65516;
> my @capabilities            = @ARGV;
> -- 
> 2.11.0.rc0.258.gf434c15