From 98a6f11e5caa62333286d697f0f5df32e778e17a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "oracle@pcr8.pcr.com" Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:39:13 -0400 Subject: Use Errno more extensively so that error messages are more portable (another way would be to muck around with LC_MESSAGES). Problem reported in To: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: [ID 19990719.003] LC_MESSAGES breaks h2xs autoloaded constants on AIX 4.1.4 Message-Id: <9907192239.AA44990@pcr8.pcr.com> p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3716 --- pod/perllocale.pod | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'pod') diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index 08b50e0d12..0447b26e8e 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -608,8 +608,12 @@ obeys the current C locale. The remaining locale category, C (possibly supplemented by others in particular implementations) is not currently used by -Perl--except possibly to affect the behavior of library functions called -by extensions outside the standard Perl distribution. +Perl--except possibly to affect the behavior of library functions +called by extensions outside the standard Perl distribution and by the +operating system and its utilities. Note especially that the string +value of C<$!> and the error messages given by external utilities may +be changed by C. If you want to have portable error +codes, use the Errno extension. =head1 SECURITY -- cgit v1.2.1