integrate cfgperl contents into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4896

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 11a35f47b8..a48aa044d2 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -544,7 +544,9 @@ start losing precision (their lower digits).
 If you have filesystems that support "large files" (files larger than
 2 gigabytes), you may now also be able to create and access them from
 Perl.  You have to use Configure -Duselargefiles.  Turning on the
-large file support turns on also the 64-bit support, for obvious reasons.
+large file support turns on also the 64-bit support on many platforms.
+Beware that unless your filesystem also supports "sparse files" seeking
+to umpteen petabytes may be unadvisable.
 
 Note that in addition to requiring a proper file system to do large
 files you may also need to adjust your per-process (or your
@@ -567,13 +569,13 @@ process resource usage limits, including the maximum filesize limit.
 =head2 Long doubles
 
 In some systems you may be able to use long doubles to enhance the
-range of precision of your double precision floating point numbers
+range and precision of your double precision floating point numbers
 (that is, Perl's numbers).  Use Configure -Duselongdouble to enable
 this support (if it is available).
 
 =head2 "more bits"
 
-You can Configure -Dusemorebits to turn on both the 64-bit support
+You can "Configure -Dusemorebits" to turn on both the 64-bit support
 and the long double support.
 
 =head2 Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
@@ -1259,10 +1261,12 @@ change#4135, also needs docs in module pod
 =item Fcntl
 
 More Fcntl constants added: F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW64, O_LARGEFILE for
-large (more than 4G) file access (64-bit support is not yet
-working, though, so no need to get overly excited), Free/Net/OpenBSD
-locking behaviour flags F_FLOCK, F_POSIX, Linux F_SHLCK, and
-O_ACCMODE: the mask of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR.
+large file (more than 4GB) access Note that the O_LARGEFILE is
+automatically/transparently added to sysopen() flags if large file
+support has been configured), Free/Net/OpenBSD locking behaviour flags
+F_FLOCK, F_POSIX, Linux F_SHLCK, and O_ACCMODE: the combined mask of
+O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR.  Also SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, and SEEK_END
+added for one-stop shopping of the seek/sysseek constants.
 
 =item File::Compare
 
diff --git a/pod/perlhist.pod b/pod/perlhist.pod
index f39117e7e4..288d8229cc 100644
--- a/pod/perlhist.pod
+++ b/pod/perlhist.pod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ perlhist - the Perl history records
 =begin RCS
 
 #
-# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.57 1999/01/26 17:38:07 jhi Exp $
+# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.2 2000/01/24 11:44:47 jhi Exp $
 #
 
 =end RCS
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ the strings?).
           5.005_03-MT4  1999-Jan-26
           5.005_03-MT5  1999-Jan-28
           5.005_03      1999-Mar-28
- Chip     5.005_04	1999-***-**
+ Chip     5.005_04	2000-***-**
 
  Sarathy  5.005_50      1998-Jul-26     The 5.6 development track.
           5.005_51      1998-Aug-10
@@ -330,8 +330,10 @@ the strings?).
 	  5.005_59	1999-Aug-02
 	  5.005_60	1999-Aug-02
 	  5.005_61	1999-Aug-20
-	  5.005_62	1999-Sep-**
-	  5.6 beta	1999-***-**
+	  5.005_62	1999-Oct-15
+	  5.005_63	1999-Dec-09
+	  5.005_64	2000-***-**
+	  5.6 beta	2000-***-**
 
 =head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES