David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:49:08PM -0500, David Golden wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It is better to use $^X or to use Probe::Perl
>> Generally, I think that $^X is safe, but on some older Perls or on some
>> oddball systems, Probe::Perl may be more reliable.
>
> IIRC the two places where $^X breaks are:
> * VMS
> * something obscure about symlinks
>
> FWIW, I use $^X. I mostly use it in tests. eg ...
> http://search.cpan.org/src/DCANTRELL/Data-Compare-1.21/t/taint.t
>
> and have the test skip on VMS. IIRC the other places I've used it are
> for code that doesn't (yet) work on VMS anyway.
>
I've never seen test results originating from a VMS system. Are there
any VMS smokers around?
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