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| author | Greg Ward <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> | 1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
| commit | 0530a6c41577c95e7ef7bf1e372d4ed138dc02f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 118560be710fa3d26b2a337a98ce480d6cd64472 /lib | |
| parent | 918d12b9653da066e0713a14d5129c04c81eb1e7 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0530a6c41577c95e7ef7bf1e372d4ed138dc02f3.tar.gz | |
Document that File::Find doesn't follow symlinks
Subject: following symlinks with File::Find
The behaviour of File::Find with respect to symbolic links is inconsistent
between Perl 5.002/5.003 and 5.004_02. Since 5.004_02's behaviour (don't
follow symlinks) is more consistent with `find' itself, this is probably
more of a documentation bug -- i.e., the File::Find man page should
mention that 1) it doesn't follow symlinks, and 2) previous versions
did, so watch out!
p5p-msgid: 199708191853.OAA07111@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/File/Find.pm | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/File/Find.pm b/lib/File/Find.pm index 1d565f2871..033cfe5e9d 100644 --- a/lib/File/Find.pm +++ b/lib/File/Find.pm @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ that don't resolve: -l && !-e && print "bogus link: $File::Find::name\n"; } +=head1 BUGS + +There is no way to make find or finddepth follow symlinks. + =cut @ISA = qw(Exporter); |