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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-09-05 16:26:17 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-09-05 16:26:17 +0000
commit43dece2ab75d79010b4220d46295e13b03e10f25 (patch)
treeb785906148c19f983fbe0c44e7a353b73598287e
parent1cffc1dde60ddf52abe5e611ef4b70fbf2581bcb (diff)
downloadperl-43dece2ab75d79010b4220d46295e13b03e10f25.tar.gz
Clear up a documentation confusion noticed by Xiaoyun Wu
<xwu@theeducationcenter.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11888
-rw-r--r--lib/File/Find.pm5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/File/Find.pm b/lib/File/Find.pm
index 0d6252a50f..eb4b2dee28 100644
--- a/lib/File/Find.pm
+++ b/lib/File/Find.pm
@@ -176,10 +176,13 @@ produces something like:
($File::Find::prune = 1);
}
+Notice the C<_> in the above C<int(-M _)>: the C<_> is a magical
+filehandle that caches the information from the preceding
+stat(), lstat(), or filetest.
+
Set the variable C<$File::Find::dont_use_nlink> if you're using AFS,
since AFS cheats.
-
Here's another interesting wanted function. It will find all symbolic
links that don't resolve: