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| author | Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> | 1998-10-11 14:53:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-10-17 02:17:49 +0000 |
| commit | 145d37e29b0763362cc1b261774de4506a62c161 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ba161c23025a56337377d2854e60bd30849313f /pod | |
| parent | 20e084116f207bc3ac625070156c45f840178d95 (diff) | |
| download | perl-145d37e29b0763362cc1b261774de4506a62c161.tar.gz | |
applied suggested patch with small doc tweak
Message-ID: <m3u31bfjza.fsf@furu.g.aas.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.005_52] Optional syswrite LENGTH argument
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1992
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 92a9532289..c23aa140ba 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3988,8 +3988,11 @@ See L<perlop/"`STRING`"> and L</exec> for details. =item syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH +=item syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR + Attempts to write LENGTH bytes of data from variable SCALAR to the -specified FILEHANDLE, using the system call write(2). It bypasses +specified FILEHANDLE, using the system call write(2). If LENGTH is +not specified, writes whole SCALAR. It bypasses stdio, so mixing this with reads (other than C<sysread())>, C<print()>, C<write()>, C<seek()>, or C<tell()> may cause confusion because stdio usually buffers data. Returns the number of bytes actually written, or C<undef> |