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It's not just the longwinded bogus things it does (Score:2)
The reason for me was that FindBin just produced an error, in this case in a CGI script, because it had insufficient access rights to one of the ancestor directories (which is like a parent directory but possibly further upstream) of the directory that the script was in — for some reason, FindBin seems to think it's necessary to walk the whole path.
So even though the script worked from the command line, it always crashed when run as a CGI.
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Re:It's not just the longwinded bogus things it do (Score:1)
Argh! That never occured to me – just another reason to steer clear. It’s almost comical how broken FindBin is if you get down to it – it’s almost a miracle how rarely people seem to be affected by that.