Bug#856504: perl: should skip @INC paths with unsufficient permission

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:45:08 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:

> I think it would be more useful to skip
> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2/
> and proceed with the next directory, rather than fail.

(Niko and Dom know more about this but for a starter:)

This was a deliberate upstream change made in 2012 and released in
2013 with the 5.18 release:

https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.0/pod/perldelta.pod#require-dies-for-unreadable-files

  require dies for unreadable files

  When require encounters an unreadable file, it now dies. It used to
  ignore the file and continue searching the directories in @INC
  [perl #113422].

The referenced upstream bug is
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113422


Cheers,
gregor

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