From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 17:10:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: perlport updates (from Peter Prymmer)
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perlport updates (from Peter Prymmer)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5028
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diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index d2015be..7a500f8 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -870,7 +870,8 @@ Even though VOS allows the slash character to appear in object
 names, because the VOS port of Perl interprets it as a pathname
 delimiting character, VOS files, directories, or links whose names
 contain a slash character cannot be processed.  Such files must be
-renamed before they can be processed by Perl.
+renamed before they can be processed by Perl.  Note that VOS limits
+file names to 32 or fewer characters.
 
 The following C functions are unimplemented on VOS, and any attempt by
 Perl to use them will result in a fatal error message and an immediate
@@ -1401,11 +1402,11 @@ Not implemented. (Plan9, Win32, S<RISC OS>)
 
 =item endpwent
 
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VM/ESA)
+Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, VM/ESA, Win32)
 
 =item endgrent
 
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VM/ESA)
+Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, S<RISC OS>, VM/ESA, VMS, Win32)
 
 =item endhostent
 
@@ -1462,11 +1463,14 @@ the process.  (Win32)
 
 =item link OLDFILE,NEWFILE
 
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>)
+Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, VMS, 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.
+
 =item lstat FILEHANDLE
 
 =item lstat EXPR
@@ -1522,6 +1526,10 @@ Only reliable on sockets. (S<RISC OS>)
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 
+=item setgrent
+
+Not implemented. (MPE/iX, Win32)
+
 =item setpgrp PID,PGRP
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
@@ -1530,6 +1538,10 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 
+=item setpwent
+
+Not implemented. (MPE/iX, Win32)
+
 =item setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Plan9)