In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit ae07d0f95d9614b1ffea793b6ac5f2ffa324cb44
Author: Smylers <smyl...@stripey.com>
Date: Fri Mar 28 16:33:05 2014 +0000
Document -l on symlinkless file systems
We can rely on -l always being false on platforms that don't support
symlinks:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/03/msg214012.html
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Summary of changes:
pod/perlfunc.pod | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index d762600..aff2cd5 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -378,7 +378,8 @@ other named unary operator. The operator may be any of:
-f File is a plain file.
-d File is a directory.
- -l File is a symbolic link.
+ -l File is a symbolic link (false if symlinks aren't
+ supported by the file system).
-p File is a named pipe (FIFO), or Filehandle is a pipe.
-S File is a socket.
-b File is a block special file.
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