Dearest Monk collective,

Having a trifle bit of hassle with Net::FTP and it's reluctance, on seemingly random occasions, to delete remote files. Let's have a looksie at some code, shall we?: 


sub get_file {

        # Similar system to sending the file over.  Give it a
        # different name when downloading incase it is parsed whilst
        # only partially loaded.

        my $file = shift;
        my $tmpfile = "DOWNLOADING-".$file;
        my $size_remote;
        my $size_local;

        $tabspaces++;
        logger("Downloading $file as $tmpfile");

        # Get size of the remote file that we wish to download.

        $size_remote = $ftp->size($file) or drop_dead("Could not obtai
+n size of $file - $!");
        logger("Size of $file is $size_remote");

        $ftp->get($file,$tmpfile)
                or drop_dead("Error downloading $tmpfile - $!");

        $size_local = -s $tmpfile;

        if ($size_local != $size_remote) {
                drop_dead("File size differs ( $size_remote <-> $ $siz
+e_local) - Error in download");
        } else {
                logger("Successful download ...");
        }

        logger("Renaming local $tmpfile as $file");
        rename($tmpfile,$file)
                or drop_dead("Could not rename local $tmpfile to $file
+ - $!");

        logger("Deleting remote file $file");
        $ftp->delete($file)
                or drop_dead("Could not delete remote $file - $!");

        $tabspaces--;
}

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Nine times out of ten, this works with no problems. Ten times out of ten, the file is downloaded. The problem is with the delete() operation. Occasionally this fails, Net::FTP coming back with the utterly distressing "Bad File Descriptor", which makes faff all sense to me. I could understand the problem had I not been able to get() the file originally, but that is downloaded without any issues.

Have I a flaky Net::FTP?

Big thanks in advance for your offerrings of advice ...

In reply to Net::FTP Bad File Descriptor - Much Weirdness by hibernian

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