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| author | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2006-05-03 05:41:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <SteveHay@planit.com> | 2006-05-04 08:24:06 +0000 |
| commit | 1fafdf3440acc2b1414f3a7530f0b4ae574e92f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 39136f01bfa8ee19b53c9eed81f136573c1035ce /pod/perlport.pod | |
| parent | ea84231e9df32b276c544e7c6b0ab0b08050a7d9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-1fafdf3440acc2b1414f3a7530f0b4ae574e92f4.tar.gz | |
RE: [PATCH] Implement ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <013f01c66ee9$8f1437a0$d045a8c0@candy>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28091
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlport.pod')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index eb5757eb97..a94c414403 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -2016,6 +2016,11 @@ meaningful and will differ between stat calls on the same file. (os2) some versions of cygwin when doing a stat("foo") and if not finding it may then attempt to stat("foo.exe") (Cygwin) +On Win32 stat() needs to open the file to determine the link count +and update attributes that may have been changed through hard links. +Setting ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT} to a true value speeds up stat() by +not performing this operation. (Win32) + =item symlink Not implemented. (Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>) |