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| author | Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> | 1996-10-09 22:30:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> | 1996-10-09 22:30:38 -0400 |
| commit | 2c19844b698b17b45488d6c855e43f78c774c1f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 0cd3cf0dea4ea9fdc1a0232f91de0d64ed6e70c7 | |
| parent | b996531ff85a522ad80354f0616a84c09d9bc85c (diff) | |
| download | perl-2c19844b698b17b45488d6c855e43f78c774c1f1.tar.gz | |
perl 5.003_07: pod/perlvar.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
$^E under OS/2.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index e9a902e38d..b0e2cf319f 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -427,12 +427,16 @@ operator. (Mnemonic: What just went bang?) =item $^E More specific information about the last system error than that -provided by C<$!>, if available. (If not, it's just C<$!> again.) -At the moment, this differs from C<$!> only under VMS, where it -provides the VMS status value from the last system error. The +provided by C<$!>, if available. (If not, it's just C<$!> again, except under +OS/2.) +At the moment, this differs from C<$!> only under VMS and OS/2, where it +provides the VMS status value from the last system error, and OS/2 error +code of the last call to OS/2 API which was not directed via CRT. The caveats mentioned in the description of C<$!> apply here, too. (Mnemonic: Extra error explanation.) +Note that under OS/2 C<$!> and C<$^E> do not track each other, so if an +OS/2-specific call is performed, you may need to check both. =item $EVAL_ERROR |