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| author | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2006-05-03 04:18:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-05-03 19:06:26 +0000 |
| commit | 2a8c8378d24b14408361a1ae13d89c877f0354f8 (patch) | |
| tree | 7570f8c288caf5c37c62f2b2734f591f51cb2f28 /pod | |
| parent | adb8659329b6b21c13aee996474236c4f2b2a6a3 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2a8c8378d24b14408361a1ae13d89c877f0354f8.tar.gz | |
RE: [PATCH] Implement ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <013901c66edd$fb8ae750$d045a8c0@candy>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28083
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index e8a38cbf08..ac75f0c08e 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1198,6 +1198,19 @@ related to the B<-w> switch.) See also L<warnings>. The current set of warning checks enabled by the C<use warnings> pragma. See the documentation of C<warnings> for more details. +=item ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT} + +If this variable is set to a true value, then stat() on Windows will +not try to open the file. This means that the link count cannot be +determined and file attributes may be out of date if additional +hardlinks to the file exist. On the other hand, not opening the file +is considerably faster, especially for files on network drives. + +This variable could be set in the F<sitecustomize.pl> file to +configure the local Perl installation to use "sloppy" stat() by +default. See L<perlrun> for more information about site +customization. + =item $EXECUTABLE_NAME =item $^X |