+++ t/op/stat.t 2012-05-30 15:24:01.182106112 +0200
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@
       if $Is_VMS;

     my $LS  = $Config{d_readlink} ? "ls -lL" : "ls -l";
-    my $CMD = "$LS /dev 2>/dev/null";
+    my $CMD = "$LS /dev 2>/dev/null | tail -n +2";
     my $DEV = qx($CMD);

     skip "$CMD failed", 6 if $DEV eq '';