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autodie fails to deduce filename for open FILEHANDLE [rt.cpan.org #99402] #94

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toddr commented Jan 16, 2020

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#99402 (status was 'new')

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From nanis@runu.moc.invalid on 2014-10-09 20:36:53:

AFAIK, when open fails, autodie's intends to show an error message with the name of the file that could not be opened:

Error message from the following script should be "Can't open('does not exist'): ..."

$ cat 0.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use autodie;
use strict;
use warnings;

our $FILE = 'does not exist';
open FILE;
$ ./0.pl
Can't open('FILE'): No such file or directory at ./0.pl line 8

On OSX, dtruss shows:

xxxx/yyyyyy:  open("does not exist\0", 0x0, 0x1B6) = -1 Err#2

On Linux, strace shows:

open("does not exist.txt", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

To my dismay, I found that perldoc -f open in most recent versions of Perl don't have this, but versions as recent as 5.18.2 explain what happens when open is invoked with a single argument:

If EXPR is omitted, the global (package) scalar variable of the same name as the FILEHANDLE contains the filename.

For other info, see:

http://blog.nu42.com/2014/10/a-bug-in-perls-autodie.html

http://blog.nu42.com/2014/10/why-was-documentation-for-single.html

Clearly, open FILENAME cannot be recommended, so I am putting very low priority on this, but FYI.

Thank you,

-- Sinan

@toddr toddr added the Needs PR label Dec 28, 2023
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