On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:

> perlfunc recommends to C<use filetest 'access';> for better results when
> running on a filesystem with ACL support. The filetest pragma seems to be
> available since Perl 5.6.

Is it lexical, or could a user use the pragma in their code and fix
HTML::Template's file tests?

> But IIRC, the Cookbook recommended to forget all the -X tests (where X =~
> /[rwxo]/i) and simply open() the file then test after the error code.

I think I'd take a patch in that direction, provided it produced the
same quality of error checking.

-sam

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