-e 'con' returns 0 on Windows causing the debugger to use stdin

[dowy]

On Windows, checking for the existence of the special file con returns false but opening it works as expected:

if (-e "con") {
  print qq[yes\n];
} else {
  print qq[no\n];
}
open my $con, '<', 'con' or die qq[Can't open 'con': $!\n];
$_ = <$con>;
print qq[xx $_ xx\n];
"close $con;

produces:

no
hello
xx hello
 xx

This has the effect of causing the Perl debugger (perl5db.pl) to report:
Can't figure out your console, using stdin

Which then means that a debugged program cannot redirect stdin and when an End-of-File is sent to the program while it is reading data from stdin then the debugger terminates and the program and exits.

Can the -e operator return 1 for the Windows special devices like con?

[shawnlaffan]

I can reproduce on 5.36 but not on 5.32.

I wonder if this is to do with the changes made to stat in 5.34? (5.33.5 is the first dev release it is in).
Perl/perl5@92b3a3e

Even if it is not, I suspect this is a perl issue rather than strawberry perl.