Re: CentOS 5 file system read only issue

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On 22/08/19 2:20 AM, Warren Young wrote:
On Aug 21, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Xinhuan Zheng <xzheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

my $s = IO::Select->new( $fh );
if ( $io->can_write( 10 ) {

That’s not designed to do what you hope.  select(2) is a system call intended for use on network socket handles, not file handles.  Since socket handles and file handles are compatible on a Unix type system (including CentOS) the call doesn’t fail, but it *cannot* report the information you’re hoping to get.

I would first try calling the -w operator:

    print_to_file() if -w $fh;

First off I would be remiss if I didn't point out that CentOS 5 has been EOL for years, that said...

You're dealing with perl here and so this might be better off asking in a perl list. The -X system of tests as documented with "perldoc -f -X" do not by default test actual ability to read and write files, but instead just check the file mode bits as returned by stat(), thus the -w test will not reflect the filesystem being in read-only mode.

There are two ways to get around this. One is to to use the filetest pragma which changes the behavior of the -X tests to use the access(2) system function:
{ use filetest 'access';
  print_to_file() if -w $fh;
}

The other way is to use POSIX::access() directly (this requires the file name or path):

use POSIX qw(access W_OK);

...

print_to_file() if access($filepath, W_OK);


Note that there are caveats to either of the above approaches as per documentation. See the following for additional info:

perldoc -f -X
perldoc filetest
access(2)


Peter
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