Thus spake Lucio De Re ("LDR> ") sometime Friday...

LDR> I haven't explored the actual source, but it seems likely to me that
LDR> Perl 5.8 has a small error in the NetBSD implementation of mkdir().
LDR>
LDR> As was discussed here before, NetBSD mkdir(2) does not allow a
LDR> trailing slash delimiter and, unless I misunderstood, it is left to
LDR> the users of the function to remove such a slash if encountered.
LDR>
LDR> I have installed the F-Prot virus checker for NetBSD and its mail
LDR> scanner kept crashing until I removed some gratuitous slashes in a
LDR> directory name.  Instead of me making corrections to the source of
LDR> scan-mail.pl, it would be preferable if Perl made allowance for the
LDR> NetBSD behaviour and my hope is that somebody with influence on Perl
LDR> development may be monitoring this list and will have this minor
LDR> niggle sorted out.

Hm.  I don't think that mkdir(2) disallows the trailing slash at all.

$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sparc-netbsd
...
$ perl -e 'mkdir "/tmp/foo/";'
$ ls -ld /tmp/foo/
drwxr-xr-x  2 greywolf  wheel  512 Aug  2 14:25 /tmp/foo/
$ uname -a
NetBSD lothlorien.starwolf.com 1.6ZE NetBSD 1.6ZE (LOTHLORIEN) #4: Thu Oct 30 00:19:30 PST 2003 Greywolf@rivendell.starwolf.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/LOTHLORIEN sparc
$

Did something change since then?

LDR>
LDR> ++L
LDR>


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