sv.c, rs.t, perlvar.pod (Coverity finding: did you know what happens with $/=\0?)

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

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 24db295..e8a38cb 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