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fix: reject I/O operations on closed mocked filehandles#344

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What

I/O operations on a closed mocked filehandle now fail with proper warnings and return values, matching real Perl behavior.

Why

After close($fh), operations like print, read, readline, seek, tell, and getc silently succeeded on mocked filehandles — writing data to the mock, reading stale contents, and reporting incorrect positions. Real Perl rejects all of these with warnings and appropriate failure returns. This discrepancy means tests using Test::MockFile could pass even when application code incorrectly operates on closed handles.

How

  • Added a closed flag to the tied FileHandle, set in CLOSE
  • Added _is_closed_with_warning() helper that emits Perl-style "op() on closed filehandle" warnings
  • Each I/O method (PRINT, PRINTF, WRITE, READ, READLINE, GETC, SEEK, TELL, EOF) checks the flag first
  • Return values match real Perl: undef for read/write ops, -1 for tell, false for seek, true for eof
  • Double close() returns false with $! = EBADF

Testing

  • New t/closed_fh_ops.t with 9 subtests covering all affected operations
  • First commit adds the failing test (demonstrates the bug), second commit adds the fix
  • Full test suite passes (1595 tests, only pre-existing fh-ref-leak.t failure)

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Changes: 2 files changed, 188 insertions(+)

Code scan: clean

Tests: failed (4 Failed, 95 test)

Branch hygiene: clean

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toddr-bot and others added 2 commits March 31, 2026 23:55
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After close($fh), operations like print, read, readline, seek, tell,
and getc still succeed on mocked filehandles — real Perl would warn
and return failure values (undef, -1, false).

This test documents the bug: all 9 subtests fail against the current
code, proving that closed-handle detection is missing from the tied
FileHandle implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After close($fh), operations like print, read, readline, syswrite,
seek, tell, getc, and eof on mocked filehandles silently succeeded —
writing data, reading stale contents, and reporting incorrect positions.

Real Perl rejects these operations with warnings ("op() on closed
filehandle") and appropriate return values (undef, -1, false).

The fix tracks closed state in CLOSE and checks it at the top of each
I/O method, matching real Perl's return values and warning format:
- print/printf/syswrite/read/readline/getc: return undef + warn
- tell: return -1 + warn
- seek: return false + warn
- eof: return true (no warning, matches real Perl)
- double close: return false with EBADF

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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