Definitely! My issue looked very similar and was the result of a bug in the "fsflush" process (name of the process in Solaris). This process flushes all buffers to the disk. It is also responsible to provide a consistent snapshot of the disk + buffers state via an API to the other components of a system.

I currently have a similar issue on a Linux box. The mixed hard disk snapshot is not always consistent. Sometimes the buffers are not properly flushed to the hard disk and I loose the solid state part of the storage. This matter has the same behavior as this case: no error at all at any level.

So provided you have a unix box try the following: 

# Prior to any opendir() statement issue:
system("sync");
# This will flush all buffers to the disk and refresh the disk snapsho
+t
# Next issue your opendir statement
opendir(...);
# Start your processing

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If your issue disappears it is most probably an OS problem and PERL can not really help but you have a solution.

K

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In reply to Re^4: Testing for readdir failure by Zzenmonk
in thread Testing for readdir failure by Bob Cook

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