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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 7574cc181e..7e0bc1fcd8 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2661,9 +2661,12 @@ A special token that returns the name of the file in which it occurs. =item fileno FILEHANDLE X<fileno> +=item fileno DIRHANDLE + =for Pod::Functions return file descriptor from filehandle -Returns the file descriptor for a filehandle, or undefined if the +Returns the file descriptor for a filehandle or directory handle, +or undefined if the filehandle is not open. If there is no real file descriptor at the OS level, as can happen with filehandles connected to memory objects via L<C<open>|/open FILEHANDLE,EXPR> with a reference for the third |