Yes, you are correct. This is from perldoc -f dbmopen 
If the database does not exist, it is created with 
protection specified by MASK (as modified by the "umask").

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Sorry for the confusion. Apparently, I was smoking something at the moment. ;)

You can still improve your code by not using open() and using file tests instead; e.g., 
sub validateSession{
  my ($session, $file) = @_;
  my %stored;
  return 0 unless (-f "$file.dir" and -f "$file.pag") or
                   -f "file.db";
  return 0 unless dbmopen %$session, $file, 0444;
  %$session = %stored;
  dbmclose %stored;
}

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--perlplexer

In reply to Re: Re: dbmopen - if db file do this else do that by perlplexer
in thread dbmopen - if db file do this else do that by Anonymous Monk

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