From: Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:41:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Implement ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}
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RE: [PATCH] Implement ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <013f01c66ee9$8f1437a0$d045a8c0@candy>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28091
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diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index eb5757e..a94c414 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -2016,6 +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>)