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May 17, 2012, 8:52 AM
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[perl #112164] stat() warns about unopened filehandle on tied handles
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On Sat Mar 31 10:55:15 2012, dagolden [at] cpan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT
> <perlbug-followup [at] perl> wrote:
> > fileno() there is not a real fileno call, but tied(*FOO)->FILENO.
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> Sure. That was just to confirm the file was indeed opened.
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> >> Tied filehandles are still incomplete. �sysopen(), truncate(),
> >> flock(), fcntl(), stat() and -X can't currently be trapped.
> >
> > So it sounds as though we would need to implement STAT on tied
> > filehandles before being able to fix this properly (i.e., for all
> > handle-tie classes).
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> I think that's a good long term goal,
I’d like to get that done for 5.18.
What should the interface be for the STAT call?
Should it be expected to return a 13-element list? Should those
returned values be associated with the _ handle?
What should happen if it returns a list with fewer elements?
Should pp_stat croak, or assume (@ret, (undef)x(13- [at] re))?
If it croaks, should it be forgiving with ‘return undef’? (Probably not.)
I think I’m in favour of having it croak if @ret != 13 && @ret != 0.
And the values should be saved for _.
Filetest calls like -r and -w can be implemented in terms of STAT, but
what do we do about -t -T -B?
> but a more immediate fix is that
> stat() should return the empty list for tied filehandles. That better
> reflects that stat() is failing (because handles don't support STAT),
> and avoids giving misleading information (e.g. "unopened") about the
> handle.
This can be the fallback for handles without STAT.
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Father Chrysostomos
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