So, after too much time stepping through with the debugger...
There is a bug in the function unixify (in VMS::Filespec). A control character is added to the end of certain length paths:
47: my($npath) = unixify($path);
DB<7> x $path
0 '[DIR.aaaaa]'
DB<8> s
File::Spec::VMS::eliminate_macros(/perl_root/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm:48):
48: my($complex) = 0;
DB<8> x $npath
0 "/USERS/DIR/aaaaa\c@" # <---- What's that \c@ doing there?!
As opposed to
47: my($npath) = unixify($path);
DB<9> x $path
0 '[DIR.aaaaaaa]'
DB<10> s
File::Spec::VMS::eliminate_macros(/perl_root/lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm:48):
48: my($complex) = 0;
DB<10> x $npath
0 '/USERS/DIR/aaaaaaa/'
I don't know how to solve this, but as a workaround, if you always pass the device name to the catfile function, it works. So do this: print File::Spec->catfile("USERS:[DIR.aaaaa]", "file"); # Include USER
+S:, or else this won't work!
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