Perl's  open seems to behave differently in UNIX and Windows, and the behavior under Windows is *odd*, or I am doing something dumb. This script: 
#!/usr/local/perl-5.6.1/bin/perl
use strict;
$|=1;

eval {
  open (FOO,">/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp") ||die
  print FOO "hello";
  close FOO;
};

if ($@) {
  print "open failed $@";
}


me@unixsystem:/tmp# ./fp.pl
open failed Died at ./fp.pl line 6.

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This fails like I thought it should because /tmp/tmp/tmp does not exist, and my message is printed. The directory needs to be made before we can create files there. Under Windows, similar code: 
use strict;
$|=1;

eval {
  open (FOO,">c:\gpp\gpp\gpp") ||die;
  print FOO "hello";
  close FOO;
};

if ($@) {
  print "open failed $@";
}

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Runs successfully (does not print error message) when the c:\gpp\gpp directory does not exist. It does not create any file either. If I try and open a file on an q:\gpp\gpp (in this case an unmapped drive), it does actually die and trigger my error message.
Does anyone know what the problem is here?

Rohit

In reply to inconsistency with ActiveState's open? by Cmdr_Tofu

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