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On Tue Jul 12 02:56:05 2016, niczero@wow.com wrote: > > This is a bug report for perl from niczero@wow.com, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.24.0. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The POD for sysseek [perldoc -f sysseek] appears to me to have an > error. In the second stanza it says > > Note the in bytes: even if the filehandle has been set to operate > on characters (for example by using the ":encoding(utf8)" I/O > layer), "tell" will return byte offsets, not character offsets > (because implementing that would render "sysseek" unacceptably > slow). > > Where it says "tell" I think it should say "sysseek". I suspect > it shouldn't mention 'tell' at all, other than in the following > stanza. > The text here is almost identical to a paragraph also found in pod/perlfunc.pod for 'tell' (perldoc -f tell). I'm pinging the last committer to this section of the code to investigate. Thank you very much. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128607Thread Previous | Thread Next