# New Ticket Created by Christian Bartolomaeus # Please include the string: [perl #131145] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131145 >
Some of the newly added tests for IO::Handle.open with different modes fail on the JVM backend. The basic modes (:r, :w, :x, :a) and combinations of those do work as expected, but there are problems with :append and :create and :ra. Just now I found https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/36f773eb01 where those modes where added (I only looked at docs.perl6.org before). From the commit message I learned: :append was not meant as a synonym for :a :ra was not meant to stand for "read + append" :r, :a was not meant to stand for "read + append" The first one surprised me the most. But indeed :a and :append work differently: $ rm -f foo 2>/dev/null; ./perl6-m -e '"foo".IO.open(:a)'; ls -s foo 0 foo $ rm -f foo 2>/dev/null; ./perl6-m -e '"foo".IO.open(:append)'; ls -s foo Failed to open file /path/to/rakudo.moar/foo: no such file or directory in block <unit> at -e line 1 Actually thrown at: in block <unit> at -e line 1 ls: foo: No such file or directory What poses a problem for rakudo-j is, that :append and :create (without :w) are assumed to mean "read" with Java and those combinations (append + read) and (create + read) do not work well. [2] IMHO a clarification is needed. If we want the additional modes as described in rakudo commit 36f773eb01 (and as implemented, bugs notwithstanding) then we should * define that :append and :create always imply "write" * change the implementation for the JVM backend so that the newly added tests pass * expand the documentation of "open" See also the discussion on #perl6-dev: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-dev/2017-04-13#i_14424307 [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html#open-java.nio.file.Path-java.util.Set-java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttribute...-
