On Feb 24, 2014, at 11:33 PM, John E. Malmberg <malmb...@encompasserve.org>
wrote:
> I can not seem to do a rmdir() of an absolute or relative Unix path with Perl
> 5.18.1.
It works unless DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT is defined. That's not particularly
well tested and you definitely found a bug. If that's defined, when rmdir
calls the internal stat routine, which calls fileify, then 'abc/xyz' becomes
'abc/xyz.DIR;1'. Then stat converts it to VMS format and we get something like
'D0:[craig.TEST.abc]xyz.DIR^;1'.
So we probably need to have fileify omit the version with unix report enabled.
> I have worked around the issue by replacing the rmdir() builtin method with
> one that translates the filename to VMS format and then calls unlink().
>
> LION> perl --version
>
> This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 1 (v5.18.1) built for VMS_IA64
>
> LION> show log decc$*
>
> (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
>
> "DECC$EFS_CASE_PRESERVE" = "ENABLE"
> "DECC$EFS_CHARSET" = "ENABLE"
For future reference, those two are on by default in Perl 5.18.x.
> "DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_NOVERSION" = "ENABLE"
> "DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT" = "ENABLE"
> "DECC$READDIR_DROPDOTNOTYPE" = "ENABLE"
>
> LION> show log perl_*
>
> (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
>
> "PERL_ROOT" = "LION$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.perl-5_18.]"
>
>
> I also noticed that opendir('/search_list/directory') fails when 'directory'
> is only in the first member of the search list. I am not sure what the issue
> there is. I think the solution for that will be more complex.
Not sure what's going on there but I'll try to have a look soonish.
> I have worked around that issue by decoding the search list and recreating
> the path to used for opendir.
>
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