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| author | Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> | 2003-04-30 11:19:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-05-02 18:50:25 +0000 |
| commit | 90b1bb76ac33d378b485f66b5eb18e95143363c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f5114e10985e0aad55cbf3ec05b05f9a66e015b /ext | |
| parent | 54f45c29ffd76a941dd03fe5df68c5e990b2ee8d (diff) | |
| download | perl-90b1bb76ac33d378b485f66b5eb18e95143363c9.tar.gz | |
Deceptive POSIX exporting docs
Message-ID: <20030501011932.GM701@windhund.schwern.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19382
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| -rw-r--r-- | ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod index d16bc3280f..1ba494552e 100644 --- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod +++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod @@ -19,10 +19,14 @@ POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 The POSIX module permits you to access all (or nearly all) the standard POSIX 1003.1 identifiers. Many of these identifiers have been given Perl-ish -interfaces. Things which are C<#defines> in C, like EINTR or O_NDELAY, are -automatically exported into your namespace. All functions are only exported -if you ask for them explicitly. Most likely people will prefer to use the -fully-qualified function names. +interfaces. + +I<Everything is exported by default> with the exception of any POSIX +functions with the same name as a built-in Perl function, such as +C<abs>, C<alarm>, C<rmdir>, C<write>, etc.., which will be exported +only if you ask for them explicitly. This is an unfortunate backwards +compatiblity feature. You can stop the exporting by saying C<use +POSIX ()> and then use the fully qualified names (ie. C<POSIX::SEEK_END>). This document gives a condensed list of the features available in the POSIX module. Consult your operating system's manpages for general information on |