in reply to Test::Harness bug ? ... or author idiocy ?
Is this a bug that should be reported ?
I would say yes. It is at the very least unexpected behaviour and should therefore be documented if not fixed outright. It might well be a symptom of some deeper as-yet-unknown problem so the Test::Harness maintainers should definitely be informed.
If you can supply a reproducible test case then no doubt others could test and determine if it is indeed an MSWin32-only issue.
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