What am I doing wrong here? I get partially correct information from caller(), but sometimes the filenames seem to be off by one. Background: sub UsageLogger() does a call trace, and sends it to a central server via UDP for tracking local API and script usage. Code in UsageLogger routine looks like: 
(undef, $function_basefile, $function_line, $function) = caller(1);

(undef, $caller_basefile, $caller_line, $caller) = caller(2);

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Sometimes I get the correct info, where the function matches up with function_basefile. But other times, it doesn't seem to match. The function is correct, but the filename is from the caller's caller. The reason for 1,2 is that the call trace looks like: 
main -> sub1 -> sub2 -> UsageLogger

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For that example, I want to see sub2 as the function, and sub1 as the caller, with the appropriate filenames. Here's an example: 
Mon Mar  7 07:09:12 2005 syscron.cc.umr.edu/syscron.cc.umr.edu unixdb:
+ script = /afs/umr.edu/software/unixdb/bin/load-email-usage-userid.pl
+     function = UMR::SysProg::ADSObject::new function_file = /afs/umr
+.edu/software/umrperl/libs/UMR/SysProg/Exchange.pm     function_line 
+= 43      caller = UMR::SysProg::Exchange::new    caller_file = /afs/
+umr.edu/software/unixdb/bin/load-email-usage-userid.pl       caller_l
+ine = 8 cwd = /afs/umr.edu/software/unixdb

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ADSObject::new should have been from ADSObject.pm, not Exchange.pm. Exchange::new should have been from Exchange.pm. I saw the note in caller's documentation about losing call frames due to optimization for N > 1, but that doesn't seem to apply here, and I would expect to lose the subroutine call as well, not just the filename.

In reply to Partially wrong info from caller() by nneul

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