installed cygwin 1.7 bob@davisrs/c/src654$ cygcheck -c cygwin Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status cygwin 1.7.0-51 OK used cpan to install File::Touch The install fails from what appears to be an error with this module: bob@davisrs/c/src654$ perl -MFcntl -e ' print $Fcntl::{"O_NONBLOCK"}, "\n" ' SCALAR(0x100c22a0) Whereas on a cygwin 1.5 system this produces: bob@davisrs1~$ perl -MFcntl -e ' print $Fcntl::{"O_NONBLOCK"}, "\n"' *Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK The failing line(s) in touch.pm is: eval { $SYSOPEN_MODE |= &{ $Fcntl::{'O_NONBLOCK'} }; }; if($@) { if($@ =~ /Your vendor has not defined/) { # probably running on Windows. } else { die "$@"; # Rethrow exception, must be something different } -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple