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@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ which has been integrated into FreeBSD 4.6.
perl 5.8.0 sets C<$^X> where possible to a full path by asking the operating
system. On FreeBSD the full path of the perl interpreter is found by reading
-the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. There is a bug on FreeBSD, where the
-result of reading this symlink is can be wrong in certain circumstances
+the symlink F</proc/curproc/file>. FreeBSD has a bug where reading this
+symlink sometimes returns an incorrect value
(see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35703 ).
In these cases perl will fall back to the old behaviour of using C's
argv[0] value for C<$^X>.