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Re: perlrun confusions
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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
April 28, 2011 09:11
Subject:
Re: perlrun confusions
Message ID:
31831.1304007099@chthon
"Craig A. Berry" <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> wrote
on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:09:28 CDT:
> I think there are two separate issues related to perlio. One is
> whether it can be turned off (-Uuseperlio) and the other is what the
> default bottom layer is.
> I'm pretty sure that perlio was made the default bottom layer
> backhandedly by turning fast stdio access off even if the capability
> is actually there. So you'll see things like this in (I think) 5.10
> and later:
> % perl -V:usefaststdio
> usefaststdio='undef';
> and we get perlio as the bottom layer by virtue of that, or at least
> we did at some point. Not sure if it's still done that way.
> So yes, the docs are quite misleading now.
Oh drat, that's what I was afraid of: there was just too much that
kept saying "in this release" without that being tagged with *what*
release they were even talking about! That promotes bitrot staleness.
--tom
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