$NetBSD: patch-ad,v 1.7 2013/09/13 10:40:59 sno Exp $ Allow parrot to detect perldoc when run as root. Perldoc changes uid to 'nobody', 'nouser' or uid -2 when run as root, so it won't be able to write files created by root with mode 0600 (or create new files in directories owned by root mode 0755). --- config/auto/perldoc.pm.orig 2013-04-30 19:11:28.000000000 +0000 +++ config/auto/perldoc.pm @@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ sub runstep { my $cmd = File::Spec->catfile($conf->data->get('scriptdirexp_provisional'), q{perldoc}); my ( $fh, $filename ) = tempfile( UNLINK => 1 ); - my $content = capture_output("$cmd -ud $filename perldoc") || undef; + my($stdout, $stderr, $retval) = + capture_output("$cmd -u $filename perldoc") || undef; + my($content) = $retval ? undef : $stderr; return 1 unless defined( $self->_initial_content_check($conf, $content) );