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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-02 08:40:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-02 08:40:36 +0000 |
| commit | 6a4647a3a8b62032c9f9f86043d233d69786c400 (patch) | |
| tree | e0c0537f9e3ecc47dbe3210575c8e4f95c3f2dac /pod/perlvar.pod | |
| parent | e26ae24d00b4db2355949e2f0fcd0f6abaa857e3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6a4647a3a8b62032c9f9f86043d233d69786c400.tar.gz | |
FreeBSD $0 dance.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19925
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index af50613fd3..e00ec4fba0 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -851,8 +851,10 @@ length of C<$0>. In the most extreme case it may be limited to the space occupied by the original C<$0>. Note for BSD users: setting C<$0> does not completely remove "perl" -from the ps(1) output. For example, setting C<$0> to C<"foobar"> will -result in C<"perl: foobar (perl)">. This is an operating system feature. +from the ps(1) output. For example, setting C<$0> to C<"foobar"> may +result in C<"perl: foobar (perl)"> (whether both the C<"perl: "> prefix +and the " (perl)" suffix are shown depends on your exact BSD variant +and version). This is an operating system feature, Perl cannot help it. In multithreaded scripts Perl coordinates the threads so that any thread may modify its copy of the C<$0> and the change becomes visible |