> This seems to be yet another occurrence of > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781120 -- handling > of non-readable directories on @INC Just to pull together the various strands of this discussion: the issue is that no StdHash.pm file actually exists, but Perl don't know that ahead of time and has to search through @INC looking for it -- and (since @INC ends with a "." entry) if the . directory happens to be unreadable by the current user, Perl aborts that search with an error.
On the other hand, if all directories in @INC are readable, then Perl completes the search without finding StdHash.pm anywhere (but also without raising an error), and falls back to the definition of the Tie::StdHash package contained within the Hash.pm file. (For what it's worth, the discussion about why Perl [v5.18 and later] aborts with an error if a path in @INC is unreadable can be found in Perl bug #113422 and the various bugs associated with it: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113422 ) Anyway, Amanda upstream has recently implemented a workaround for this situation, as mentioned on the amanda-hackers list: Subject: Re: "./Tie/StdHash.pm: Permission denied at" error messages From: Jean-Louis Martineau <JMartineau () carbonite ! com> Date: 2017-07-19 12:16:04 http://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers&m=150046696903634&w=2 The two-line patch in question can be found at, e.g.: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/9f390065b6eb27a79ea273295065890925f1659a Nathan
