t/op/grep.t using test.pl

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

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 33c68a0..ac75f0c 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ will read a record of no more than 32768 bytes from FILE.  If you're
 not reading from a record-oriented file (or your OS doesn't have
 record-oriented files), then you'll likely get a full chunk of data
 with every read.  If a record is larger than the record size you've
-set, you'll get the record back in pieces.
+set, you'll get the record back in pieces.  Trying to set the record
+size to zero or less will cause reading in the (rest of the) whole file.
 
 On VMS, record reads are done with the equivalent of C<sysread>,
 so it's best not to mix record and non-record reads on the same
@@ -1148,6 +1149,8 @@ and is thereafter read-only.
 =item ${^UTF8CACHE}
 
 This variable controls the state of the internal UTF-8 offset caching code.
+1 for on (the default), 0 for off, -1 to debug the caching code by checking
+all its results against linear scans, and panicking on any discrepancy.
 
 =item ${^UTF8LOCALE}
 
@@ -1195,6 +1198,19 @@ related to the B<-w> switch.)  See also L<warnings>.
 The current set of warning checks enabled by the C<use warnings> pragma.
 See the documentation of C<warnings> for more details.
 
+=item ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}
+
+If this variable is set to a true value, then stat() on Windows will
+not try to open the file. This means that the link count cannot be
+determined and file attributes may be out of date if additional
+hardlinks to the file exist. On the other hand, not opening the file
+is considerably faster, especially for files on network drives.
+
+This variable could be set in the F<sitecustomize.pl> file to
+configure the local Perl installation to use "sloppy" stat() by
+default.  See L<perlrun> for more information about site
+customization.
+
 =item $EXECUTABLE_NAME
 
 =item $^X