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diff --git a/pod/perltie.pod b/pod/perltie.pod index 05b79730c3..3665f0420e 100644 --- a/pod/perltie.pod +++ b/pod/perltie.pod @@ -1076,6 +1076,14 @@ source code to MLDBM. Tied filehandles are still incomplete. sysopen(), truncate(), flock(), fcntl(), stat() and -X can't currently be trapped. +The bucket usage information provided by C<scalar(%hash)> is not +available. If C<%hash> is tied, this will currently result in a +fatal error. + +Counting the number of entries in a hash via C<scalar(keys(%hash))> or +C<scalar(values(%hash)>) is inefficient since it needs to iterate +through all the entries with FIRSTKEY/NEXTKEY. + =head1 AUTHOR Tom Christiansen |