Re: Debhelper: Do not upgrade

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:10:13AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:

> That may be because the empty string is a valid file name on the
> Hurd (it refers to the current directory), though it isn't on Linux.
> The perl program that uses the empty file name, when what it really
> intends is not to refer to any file name, is buggy.

Yuck.

Is this a common thing to do in Perl?  I'm wondering how carefully we
should look for this in other perl apps, and is it worth documenting
in our portability tips and techniques pages.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey