From dc09fdd957016ca0d595c25977472e49c6ac4457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Williamson Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 11:51:36 -0600 Subject: README.freebsd: Add some L<>, C<> to pod --- README.freebsd | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.freebsd') diff --git a/README.freebsd b/README.freebsd index 4bfe974137..1b290ce7cd 100644 --- a/README.freebsd +++ b/README.freebsd @@ -20,21 +20,21 @@ reading large directories. A patch for FreeBSD libc is available (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/30631 ) which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6. -=head2 $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD +=head2 C<$^X> doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD perl sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by using C with C if that is supported, else by reading the symlink F. FreeBSD 7 and earlier has a bug where either approach sometimes returns an incorrect value -(see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ). +(see L ). In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's -argv[0] value for C<$^X>. +C value for C<$^X>. =head1 AUTHOR Nicholas Clark , collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic and Tim Bunce. -Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F. +Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to L. -- cgit v1.2.1