Re^3: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).

I was addressing assigning to it as being the main issue, but I wouldn't negate it either as a general rule, because it certainly doesn't have to be numeric.

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Re^4: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno). by jpl (Monk) on May 24, 2011 at 17:24 UTC
If that were the case, then $ERRNO should not say If used numerically, yields the current value of the C errno variable and You can assign a number to $! to set errno The OP did nothing unreasonable. ikegami has settled the matter, in my opinion. It was a bug, it has been fixed.	[reply]
Re^5: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno). by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on May 25, 2011 at 09:16 UTC
Yes it does say that in the 5.14 documentation. I don't remember what it used to say - but OK then you're right. One world, one people	[reply]