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Moin,
On 08-Nov-01 Craig A. Berry tried to scribble about:
> At 7:39 PM -1000 11/7/01, Tim Jenness wrote:
>>On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote:
[snip]
> Well, here's that complete test before my modifications:
> {
> for my $test (0, 1) {
> $! = 0;
> # POSIX::errno is autoloaded.
> # Autoloading requires many system calls.
> # errno() looks at $! to generate its result.
> # Autoloading should not munge the value.
> my $foo = $!;
> my $errno = POSIX::errno();
> print "not " unless $errno == $foo;
> print "ok ", 28 + $test, "\n";
> }
> }
>
> If I understand the comment correctly, it's saying that because
> POSIX::errno depends on autoloading, it might corrupt itself if
> autoloading sets errno. Therefore it's trying to make sure that
> autoloading does *not* set errno, which, as you suggest, may not be a
> reasonable expectation, but there it is. Am I reading this right?
That is also what I gathered from the test. But then English is one of my
weak points as probably anybody knows ;)
Cheers,
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