Re: Perl '-e' permissions problem. (code)

A guess, but -e has to create a script under /tmp/perl$$ or something like that. Are you sure your /tmp is writable, and that there are no scripts left over in there that shouldn't be?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Perl '-e' permissions problem. (code) by chipmunk (Parson) on May 04, 2001 at 06:03 UTC
Actually, starting with perl5.005, Perl no longer creates a temporary file in /tmp when -e is used. That behavior was a potential security hole, because another process could mess with the file. Update: I used this in a trivia question at a Mongers party a couple years ago: Q. Three diagnostic messages are obsolete in perl5.005. All three were related to what Perl feature? A. The -e command line switch. (All three reported errors with the temp file for -e; in perl5.005 -e no longer creates a temp file.)	[reply]

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Re: Re: Perl '-e' permissions problem. (code)
by chipmunk (Parson) on May 04, 2001 at 06:03 UTC

Update: I used this in a trivia question at a Mongers party a couple years ago:

Q. Three diagnostic messages are obsolete in perl5.005. All three were related to what Perl feature?

A. The -e command line switch. (All three reported errors with the temp file for -e; in perl5.005 -e no longer creates a temp file.)

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