Hi,
I'm using IO::DIR as described in http://perldoc.perl.org/IO/Dir.html on Perl 5.8.4 and seeing a problem. I try to delete a file using the tied hash and it does not work, it returns an error code but no error text.

What am I doing wrong?

1. In the filesystem I run "touch foo", permissions are 644 or 666.

2. I run "delete.pl" as listed below.

3. The output is a blank line which means the delete failed and doing "echo $?" in the shell returns 255. 

$ cat delete.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use IO::Dir;

tie %dir, 'IO::Dir', '.';

delete($dir{'foo'}) || die "$!\n";

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