[Pdx-pm] require './file' vs. require 'file'

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Austin Schutz
# on Friday 16 June 2006 01:02 pm:

>use lib '/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/my';

fair enough

>and
>
>require 'my_lib.pl';

no.  use my_lib;

  strace -o /tmp/stracefile perl -e "require './my_lib.pl'"
  grep my_lib.pl /tmp/stracefile | grep '^open' | sed 's/ .*//'

  strace -o /tmp/stracefile perl -e "require 'my_lib.pl'"
  grep my_lib.pl /tmp/stracefile | grep '^open' | sed 's/ .*//'

On my box, the output shows searches through hither and yon in the 
second case.

--Eric
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