I found an interesting issue when running under Windows where "normal" text files have CRLF line endings.

Basically, using a generated temporary file from File::Temp was not giving the normal endings, but were "binary" by default.

use File::Temp;
use File::Spec;

print "hello1\n";  # defaults to CRLF, as documented.

open F, ">", "out2.txt";  # ditto.
print F "hello2\n";

open F, "> :utf8", "out3.txt";  # still CRLF
print F "hello3\n";

open F, ">", "out4.txt";
binmode F, ":utf8";  # still OK!
print F "hello4\x{b6}\n";


$h= new File::Temp( TEMPLATE => 'helloXXXXX', SUFFIX => $suffix, UNLIN
+K => 0, DIR => File::Spec->tmpdir());
$fname= $h->filename;
print "sending out5 to $fname\n";
# binmode $h, ":utf8";  # no CR, shows 0x0A only.  But :utf8 silences 
+warning.
print $h "hello5\x{b6}\n";

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Looking at the Perl code for File::Temp, I see that it uses sysopen rather than the normal open. I think that's why it behaves differently.

Why?

And why does sysopen not set up the platform defaults, though it still appears to use IO layers?

—John

Update: behavior on Perl 5.8.4 (ActiveState build 810), but is fixed in Perl 5.8.6 (AS build 811)

In reply to Why does File::Temp use sysopen? by John M. Dlugosz

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