Placing the open() call inside the do{} struct will automatically close the filehandle if possible. Placing the close() call outside the do{} struct is useless and will make it fail systematically Change the error message to state that what fails is a fork(), not a file opening. Use autodie to properly exit when a print or open call fails. Signed-off-by: Célestin Matte <celestin.matte@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl index 952ddcc..20ddccb 100755 --- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl +++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; use URI::Escape; use Readonly; +use autodie; # Mediawiki filenames can contain forward slashes. This variable decides by which pattern they should be replaced Readonly my $SLASH_REPLACEMENT => '%2F'; @@ -363,8 +364,6 @@ sub run_git { local $/ = undef; <$git> }; - close($git); - return $res; } -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html