From: Benjamin Goldberg Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:52:35 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Re: Silly stat() portability questions X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6fab322b2f113f8f5550387e4b37b9fb4d074f5e;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: Silly stat() portability questions Message-ID: <3C0EEB83.8CE93CA2@earthlink.net> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13482 --- diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 34e9dab..43ee812 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ permissions between the permissions check and the actual operation. Just try the operation.) Don't assume the UNIX user and group semantics: especially, don't -expect the C<$E> and C<$E> (or the E<$(> and E<$)) to work +expect the C<$E> and C<$E> (or the E<$(> and E<$)>) to work for switching identities (or memberships). Don't assume set-uid and set-gid semantics. (And even if you do,