bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle

Subject: Re: More info regarding the Can't locate error message [PATCH]

lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:

> use FileHandle;
> STDERR->open("/tmp/errorsfile","w");

This patch tries to fix the problem by auto-blessing handles as
'FileHandle' if the FileHandle package has been loaded and IO::Handle
otherwise.  The snag is that STDOUT, STDIN, STDERR are initialized
before 'use FileHandle' executes, so they are all initially blessed as
IO::Handles.  We compensate by reblessing them in FileHandle.pm:

This makes Larry's example as well as the following code work:

  use FileHandle;
  open(F, "/dev/null") or die;
  F->seek(0, 1) or die;

p5p-msgid: hyb80drrz.fsf@bergen.sn.no

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 6c912a0e9b..8b38bbe19e 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -827,7 +827,9 @@ newIO()
     sv_upgrade((SV *)io,SVt_PVIO);
     SvREFCNT(io) = 1;
     SvOBJECT_on(io);
-    iogv = gv_fetchpv("IO::Handle::", TRUE, SVt_PVHV);
+    iogv = gv_fetchpv("FileHandle::", FALSE, SVt_PVHV);
+    if (!iogv)
+      iogv = gv_fetchpv("IO::Handle::", TRUE, SVt_PVHV);
     SvSTASH(io) = (HV*)SvREFCNT_inc(GvHV(iogv));
     return io;
 }