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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
April 28, 2011 07:58
Subject:
Re: perlrun confusions
Message ID:
20110428165819.335fa9d9@pc09.procura.nl
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:39:33 -0600, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
wrote:

> Some words gotten left out in perlrun's description of PERLIO:
> 
>     For Unix platforms that will equivalent of "unix perlio" or "stdio".
>     Configure is setup to prefer "stdio" implementation if system's library
>     provides for fast access to the buffer, otherwise it uses the "unix perlio"
>     implementation.
> 
> I think that should be:
> 
>     For Unix platforms, that will be the equivalent of "unix perlio" or "stdio".
>     Configure is setup to prefer the "stdio" implementation if the system library
>     provides fast access to the buffer; otherwise it uses the "unix perlio"
>     implementation.
> 
> --tom

I wonder if that statements in total still holds value

We dropped -Uuseperlio a while back, as all pels are now configured to
use perlio.

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