Dermot Paikkos wrote:
>
> I have been playing with the File::Temp module. I wanted to use it to
> create a temporary mount point on a file system then mount a
> remote dir into it and copy the files over.
>
> I tried the following:
> use File::Temp qw/ tempdir /;
> .....
> $tempdir = tempdir();
> system("mount","-t","nfs","server:/usr1","$tempdir") || die "Can't
> mount into $tempdir: $!\n";
>
> I always get the OS error "no such file or directory". The dir is made
> so i am not sure if this is an OS problem or a design feature.
system() returns zero on _success_ and non-zero on _error_ so that
statement will always die and the error is stored in $? not $!
system("mount","-t","nfs","server:/usr1",$tempdir) == 0
or die "Can't mount into $tempdir: $?";
perldoc -f system
John
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