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| -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> |