It appears that -T cause perl to avoid doing the stat, opting for open 
and fstat instead (so that it can check the file header to see if it's 
text).  The open of course fails, and thus the stat does not get 
populated.


On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 11:04 AM, Michael Lamertz wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:53:46PM +0200, Michael Lamertz wrote:
>>
>> The 'stat' structure is used.  That structure has been filled by the 
>> -T,
>> since the file has been accessed, regardless of the fact that the test
>> for the 'text' type failed.
>
> DUH!  Me Idiot, Ugh!  I mixed up || and && in my own test and had thus
> printed the correct answer, but my test was bogus.  Yepp, looks like the
> stat is empty...
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