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Setting chmod John 03-09-2008
---> Re: Setting chmod Joost Diepenmaa...03-09-2008
Posted by Ben Morrow on March 9, 2008, 7:41 pm
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> > Why is the test.txt not chmodded to 0600 but to 0755
>
> Because $sec is not a file name or a file handle. It's a good idea to
> check if any file operation succeeded:
>
> open(TEKST,">test.txt") or die $!;
> chmod 0600,*TEKST or die $!;

Don't use bare globs unless you really have to. They're very magic, and
it's always safer to use a globref when you can:

chmod 0600, \*TEKST or die $!;

Of course, a lexical filehandle would be better again.

Ben


Posted by Abigail on March 10, 2008, 4:35 am
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Ben Morrow (ben@morrow.me.uk) wrote on VCCCIV September MCMXCIII in
**
** >
** > > Why is the test.txt not chmodded to 0600 but to 0755
** >
** > Because $sec is not a file name or a file handle. It's a good idea to
** > check if any file operation succeeded:
** >
** > open(TEKST,">test.txt") or die $!;
** > chmod 0600,*TEKST or die $!;
**
** Don't use bare globs unless you really have to. They're very magic, and
** it's always safer to use a globref when you can:
**
** chmod 0600, \*TEKST or die $!;


So, in which way is 'chmod 0600, *TEKST' unsafe?

And why didn't you perlbug it?



Abigail
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