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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2006-10-02 15:58:18 +0300 |
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| committer | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2006-10-02 10:09:48 +0000 |
| commit | f5a7294f1dd651fb00c000797104b15457a93401 (patch) | |
| tree | ce85dbf79cb58e51cd332b83461f522118ec4b55 /pod/perldiag.pod | |
| parent | 582588d244ad30f176d66f31670f637b0bdb9884 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f5a7294f1dd651fb00c000797104b15457a93401.tar.gz | |
perldiag.pod: followup on the PerlIO::scalar patch
Message-ID: <4520E2BA.1000309@iki.fi>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28912
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldiag.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index d55ba22f46..ac67f15da6 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -2766,8 +2766,11 @@ which is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs. (F, W layer) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv/seek operation with an offset pointing outside the buffer. This is difficult to -imagine. The sole exception to this is that C<sysread()>ing past the -buffer will extend the buffer and zero pad the new area. +imagine. The sole exceptions to this are that zero padding will +take place when going past the end of the string when either +C<sysread()>ing a file, or when seeking past the end of a scalar opened +of I/O (in anticipation of future reads and to imitate the behaviour with +real files). =item %s() on unopened %s |