+#!perl -w
+
+# This file is for testing file functionality that is independent of
+# the file format
+
+use strict;
+use Test::More tests => 3;
+use Imager;
+
+Imager::init_log("testout/t1000files.log", 1);
+
+SKIP:
+{
+ # Initally I tried to write this test using open to redirect files,
+ # but there was a buffering problem that made it so the data wasn't
+ # being written to the output file. This external perl call avoids
+ # that problem
+
+ my $test_script = 'testout/t1000files_probe.pl';
+
+ # build a temp test script to use
+ ok(open(SCRIPT, "> $test_script"), "open test script")
+ or skip("no test script $test_script: $!", 2);
+ print SCRIPT <<'PERL';
+#!perl
+use Imager;
+use strict;
+my $file = shift or die "No file supplied";
+open FH, "< $file" or die "Cannot open file: $!";
+binmode FH;
+my $io = Imager::io_new_fd(fileno(FH));
+Imager::i_test_format_probe($io, -1);
+PERL
+ close SCRIPT;
+ my $perl = $^X;
+ $perl = qq/"$perl"/ if $perl =~ / /;
+
+ print "# script: $test_script\n";
+ my $cmd = "$perl -Mblib $test_script t/t1000files.t";
+ print "# command: $cmd\n";
+
+ my $out = `$cmd`;
+ is($?, 0, "command successful");
+ is($out, '', "output should be empty");
+}
+