5.005_63: Find::Fill cannot handle /

[p5pRT]

Migrated from rt.perl.org#1893 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT1893$

[p5pRT]

From @sciurius

Find​::File is unable to handle the directory "/".
In line 303 of File/Find.pm, a lone "/" is reduced to "", causing the subsequent
stat() to fail.

Perl Info

Site configuration information for perl 5.00563:

Configured by jv at Mon Dec 13 17:32:43 MET 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 63) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.13, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux phoenix.squirrel.nl 2.2.13 #1 fri oct 22 12:28:44 mest 1999 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/usr -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux -Dd_dosuid'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
    use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.8.1
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.0.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00563:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00563/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00563
    /usr/lib/site_perl/5.00563/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl 5.00563:
    HOME=/home/jv
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=.:/home/jv/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh