Hello Monks,

I'm seeing the following on WinXP running strawberry-perl:

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>md t

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>echo print "hi\n"; > t/t.p
+l

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>perl -e"do'.\t\t.pl'"
hi

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>perl -e"do'./t\t.pl'"
hi

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>perl -T -e"do'./t\t.pl'"
hi

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>perl -T -e"do'.\t\t.pl'"

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\perl\Desktop>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.1, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=de
fine
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPL
+ICIT_CONTE
XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.5', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long lo
+ng', lseek
size=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"c:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\CORE" -L"c:\
+strawberry
-perl\mingw\lib"'
    libpth=c:\strawberry-perl\mingw\lib
    libs= -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -
+lcomdlg32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lm
+pr -lwinmm
 -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32
    perllibs= -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspo
+ol -lcomdl
g32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32
+ -lmpr -lw
inmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32
    libc=-lmsvcrt, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=libperl58.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"c:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib
+\CORE" -L"
c:\strawberry-perl\mingw\lib"'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_PERLIO
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Aug 27 2006 17:17:50
  @INC:
    C:/strawberry-perl/perl/lib
    C:/strawberry-perl/perl/site/lib
    .
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Is this behavior expected?

Shouldn't perl -T -e"do'./t\t.pl'" and perl -T -e"do'.\t\t.pl'" do the same thing (and print 'hi').

I came across this examining a false positive(failing) test in Scalar-List-Utils which uses an expression like above. http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=25430

Thank you for any insight.

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