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authorroot <root>2007-11-28 18:29:29 +0000
committerroot <root>2007-11-28 18:29:29 +0000
commit88e775bf263260736b416158fa5c27bece8644c0 (patch)
tree0be10e4d95df5368e37510944f9a879852bb01f8 /ev.pod
parent15231b01d6df419056fbc6d97bc10a2f8f79da00 (diff)
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@@ -1225,6 +1225,9 @@ not exist" is signified by the C<st_nlink> field being zero (which is
otherwise always forced to be at least one) and all the other fields of
the stat buffer having unspecified contents.
+The path I<should> be absolute and I<must not> end in a slash. If it is
+relative and your working directory changes, the behaviour is undefined.
+
Since there is no standard to do this, the portable implementation simply
calls C<stat (2)> regularly on the path to see if it changed somehow. You
can specify a recommended polling interval for this case. If you specify