Make Perl_vms_start_glob() decline politely when passed an empty

argument.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33993

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vms/vms.c b/vms/vms.c
index 82d612ab81..363212a4b0 100644
--- a/vms/vms.c
+++ b/vms/vms.c
@@ -12768,6 +12768,11 @@ Perl_vms_start_glob
     unsigned long int lff_flags = 0;
     int rms_sts;
 
+    if (!SvOK(tmpglob)) {
+        SETERRNO(ENOENT,RMS$_FNF);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
 #ifdef VMS_LONGNAME_SUPPORT
     lff_flags = LIB$M_FIL_LONG_NAMES;
 #endif