On Mageia 5, that creates a subdirectory and generates the error.
On 3/7/16, Alex Jakimenko <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko > # Please include the string: [perl #127671] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127671 > > > > One-liner to reproduce the bug (preferably run it in an empty directory): > > perl -E 'mkdir pack "h*", "60ba"'; perl6 -e 'dir; say ‘hello’' > > Result: > Malformed UTF-8 at line 1 col 2 > in block <unit> at -e line 1 > > > It should not die. Such file (or directory) exists and all operations with > it should work. > > I've reproduced that on linux with ext4 filesystem. ugexe confirmed it. > > It was reported that this bug is not reproducible with that one-liner on OS > X: > <ParsonsNose> AlexDaniel I get no errors. it just makes a directory called > ^F%AB/ .. > > Windows gives no error, and doesn't appear to make the directory > > See also this: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2016-03-07#i_12150444 >