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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-05-09 11:51:36 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2016-05-12 20:16:39 -0600 |
| commit | dc09fdd957016ca0d595c25977472e49c6ac4457 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c8d4dc7a9f3fc8a8a457a03c80b0c8db7dc8624 /README.freebsd | |
| parent | 19fc2965b60669d7bc25548edb32e3cdd86a68de (diff) | |
| download | perl-dc09fdd957016ca0d595c25977472e49c6ac4457.tar.gz | |
README.freebsd: Add some L<>, C<> to pod
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.freebsd | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
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<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by using C<sysctl> with C<KERN_PROC_PATHNAME> if that is supported, else by reading the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. FreeBSD 7 and earlier has a bug where either approach sometimes returns an incorrect value -(see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ). +(see L<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703> ). In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's -argv[0] value for C<$^X>. +C<argv[0]> value for C<$^X>. =head1 AUTHOR Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>, collating wisdom supplied by Slaven Rezic and Tim Bunce. -Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F<perlbug@perl.org>. +Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to L<mailto:perlbug@perl.org>. |