Make a dummy OPpPAD_STATE and a dummy PL_unitcheck_save available to

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlport.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index b639c47..a94c414 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -1880,8 +1880,11 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, S<RISC OS>)
 Link count not updated because hard links are not quite that hard
 (They are sort of half-way between hard and soft links). (AmigaOS)
 
-Hard links are implemented on Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 2000)
-under NTFS only.
+Hard links are implemented on Win32 under NTFS only. They are
+natively supported on Windows 2000 and later.  On Windows NT they
+are implemented using the Windows POSIX subsystem support and the
+Perl process will need Administrator or Backup Operator privileges
+to create hard links.
 
 Available on 64 bit OpenVMS 8.2 and later.  (VMS)
 
@@ -2013,6 +2016,11 @@ meaningful and will differ between stat calls on the same file.  (os2)
 some versions of cygwin when doing a stat("foo") and if not finding it
 may then attempt to stat("foo.exe") (Cygwin)
 
+On Win32 stat() needs to open the file to determine the link count
+and update attributes that may have been changed through hard links.
+Setting ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT} to a true value speeds up stat() by
+not performing this operation. (Win32)
+
 =item symlink
 
 Not implemented. (Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>)