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[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Porting / Glossary

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+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ csh (Loc.U):
        full pathname (if any) of the csh program.  After Configure runs,
        the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
 
+d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
+       available to apply a function to all the file handles.
+
 d_access (d_access.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
        call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
@@ -545,6 +549,10 @@ d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
        whether the fcntl() function exists
 
+d_fcntl_can_lock (d_fcntl_can_lock.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
+       and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
+
 d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
        This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
        which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
@@ -610,6 +618,10 @@ d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
 
+d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
+
 d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
@@ -711,6 +723,10 @@ d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
        prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.  
        See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
 
+d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
+       is available to get the system page size.
+
 d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME 
        symbol, which indicates to the C program that the 
@@ -1235,6 +1251,12 @@ d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
        the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
        magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
 
+d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
+       which indicates to the C program that the system provides
+       a prototype for the sbrk() function.  Otherwise, it is
+       up to the program to supply one.
+
 d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
        symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
@@ -1478,6 +1500,15 @@ d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
        This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
        FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
 
+d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
+       This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
+       to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
+
+d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
+       This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
+       to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
+       value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
+
 d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
        This variable tells whether there is an array holding
        the stdio streams.
@@ -1533,6 +1564,10 @@ d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
 
+d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
+
 d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
@@ -2408,6 +2443,11 @@ intsize (intsize.U):
        This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
        indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
 
+issymlink (issymlink.U):
+       This variable holds the switch of the test command to test
+       for a symbolic link (if they are supported).  Typical values
+       include '-h' and '-L'.
+
 ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
        This variable contains the format string used for printing
        a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer. 
@@ -2709,6 +2749,15 @@ n (n.U):
        command to suppress newline.  Otherwise it is null.  Correct usage is
        $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
 
+need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
+       This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
+       the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
+       that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
+       other means must be used when copying is required.
+       As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
+       of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
+       independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
+
 netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
        This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
        gethostbyaddr().  Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.