Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl "do" bug.
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.190655.16030@eci386.uucp>
Date: 7 Feb 90 19:06:55 GMT
Reply-To: clewis@eci386 (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Toronto, Canada
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When you

	do 'something';

And "something" isn't in your home directory (though it's directory is in 
@INC), $! is set to "No such file or directory".  Even though perl actually 
did read the file, $@ is zero/null and definitions set therein can be 
referenced.  Sometimes this appears to depend on the contents of the 
perl script, but I've not narrowed it down very far.  Both Perl 2 and 3.

I suspect that this is actually errno being set on the first open attempt
(in your home directory), but isn't being reset on a later successful
open.

Have I missed something?
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