Use 3 argument open to avoid any issues with parsing and silence perlcritic. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2014-05-26 12:47:35.039720690 -0700 +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2014-05-26 13:27:52.000000000 -0700 @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { my $file_cnt = @files; my $lastfile; - open(my $patch, "< $file") + open(my $patch, '<', $file) or die "$P: Can't open $file: $!\n"; # We can check arbitrary information before the patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/