Re^4: What's broken in Perl 5?

Ah, so that isn't a problem so much with File::Find in general, but with the recently-bolted-on dangling-symlink-handler thingy, which I've never used.

(Reading docs quickly...)

Hmm. Since it's immediately after the "follow" group of options, I bet it only kicks in when follow is enabled, which you haven't. However, I would then argue that it's a bit of a doc bug. Try rerunning your test with follow set to 1.

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Re^5: What's broken in Perl 5? by fraterm (Scribe) on May 05, 2005 at 14:24 UTC
I'll try that out. I don't recall it working then... I'd attempted to use the recently bolted on thing for awhile. It'd be odd if I didn't flail around to flip that switch in my throes of frustration... ;) UPDATE:I saw no change in behavior when modifying the follow parameter. I also twiddled chdir to no avail. and tried just setting dangling_symlinks to 1 to bomb out with an error if it ran across one. It didn't. Finder continues to find stuff... Squibbie Pooh Ski Doo.	[reply]

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Re^5: What's broken in Perl 5?
by fraterm (Scribe) on May 05, 2005 at 14:24 UTC

I'll try that out. I don't recall it working then... I'd attempted to use the recently bolted on thing for awhile. It'd be odd if I didn't flail around to flip that switch in my throes of frustration... ;)

UPDATE:I saw no change in behavior when modifying the follow parameter. I also twiddled chdir to no avail. and tried just setting dangling_symlinks to 1 to bomb out with an error if it ran across one. It didn't. Finder continues to find stuff...

Squibbie Pooh Ski Doo.

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