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| author | oracle@pcr8.pcr.com <oracle@pcr8.pcr.com> | 1999-07-19 14:39:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-07-21 11:40:39 +0000 |
| commit | 98a6f11e5caa62333286d697f0f5df32e778e17a (patch) | |
| tree | b41b527557c817d09a1e04db5c7eda1f3277cc93 /pod/perllocale.pod | |
| parent | 578789a778068710d29ac6362e21ea2ead734321 (diff) | |
| download | perl-98a6f11e5caa62333286d697f0f5df32e778e17a.tar.gz | |
Use Errno more extensively so that error
messages are more portable (another way
would be to muck around with LC_MESSAGES).
Problem reported in
To: perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject: [ID 19990719.003] LC_MESSAGES breaks h2xs autoloaded constants on AIX 4.1.4
Message-Id: <9907192239.AA44990@pcr8.pcr.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3716
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perllocale.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perllocale.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index 08b50e0d12..0447b26e8e 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -608,8 +608,12 @@ obeys the current C<LC_TIME> locale. The remaining locale category, C<LC_MESSAGES> (possibly supplemented by others in particular implementations) is not currently used by -Perl--except possibly to affect the behavior of library functions called -by extensions outside the standard Perl distribution. +Perl--except possibly to affect the behavior of library functions +called by extensions outside the standard Perl distribution and by the +operating system and its utilities. Note especially that the string +value of C<$!> and the error messages given by external utilities may +be changed by C<LC_MESSAGES>. If you want to have portable error +codes, use the Errno extension. =head1 SECURITY |