I am playing around with a possible improvement to the File::Slurp module that I would eventually submit to the author, but right now, I am running into a strange problem.

This is the piece of code that I am adding to the module:

sub read_long_dir{
  my($d)=$_;
  my(@r);
  my $stats;

  my@r1=read_dir($d);
  foreach my $file(@r1){
    my @stats=stat("$d/$file");
    my($mode,$uid,$gid,$size,$atime)=@stats[2,4,5,7,8];
    $uid=getpwuid($uid);
    $gid=getgrgid($gid);
    $atime=scalar localtime($atime);
    $mode=sprintf"%04o",$mode & 07777;
    $stats="$mode $uid $gid $size $atime $file";
    push @r,$stats;
  }
  return @r;
}
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When I run the test program that I have as root, it runs fine, however, if I run the test as myself, it coredumps. Do the getgrgid/getpwuid functions need to be run as root? Any help would be appreciated.

TStanley
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