-e fails sometimes

From: Asterbing <no@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:57:55 +0200

Hello. Under ActivePerl/Apache2/Win2k, sometimes (not everytime) the
file existence test fails while the path is correct.

For example, here sometimes $fileok becomes zéro, while $file exist on
disk in fact.

if (! -e $file){$fileok = 0;}

Is-it a -e stability issue ?
Does the $file syntax should follow some rules (comes from a form and I
don't escape the "\", is that ok ?) ?

Should I go through open rather than -e ?

What do you think about that ?
.

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