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authorTom Hukins <tom@eborcom.com>2010-05-13 13:14:31 +0000
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2010-11-05 22:24:38 -0700
commita74b42b234cb6f24e400ffe831c534928b0c1cf3 (patch)
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parentc85da6fca199d404bb30401e8e6e347010620f75 (diff)
downloadperl-a74b42b234cb6f24e400ffe831c534928b0c1cf3.tar.gz
Clarify wording.
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@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6.
perl 5.8.0 sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating
system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading
-the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. There is a bug on FreeBSD, where the
-result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances
+the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. FreeBSD has a bug where reading this
+symlink sometimes returns an incorrect value
(see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ).
In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's
argv[0] value for C<$^X>.