Bug 447371

Summary: use filetest 'access' checks wrong permissions for -x
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Mansfield <bugzilla>
Component: perlAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: kasal, pbartfai, rc040203, robin.norwood, tcallawa
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Fixed In Version: perl-5.10.0-23.fc9 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description David Mansfield 2008-05-19 17:55:37 UTC 
Description of problem:

When using "use filetest "access"' the -x builtin tests the wrong permission. It
tests W_OK instead of X_OK.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


perl-5.10.0-20.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. strace -e access perl -e "use filetest 'access'; print -x '/bin/ls';"
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Actual results:

Should be testing X_OK.

Expected results:

Tests W_OK.


Additional info:

Breaks install of DBD::Oracle at least.

Tried to submit uptream via perlbug but it didn't seem to work... (no feedback
from there).
Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-06-11 13:23:05 UTC 
It looks same as http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=49003
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-06-12 11:35:53 UTC 
perl-5.10.0-26.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
Comment 3 Lubomir Rintel 2008-06-21 18:16:59 UTC 
*** Bug 449887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-06-25 02:54:03 UTC 
perl-5.10.0-26.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.