From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:36:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: More $0 sad tales. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dda345b7d3b1ba770b2bb4401e3983c755467731;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git More $0 sad tales. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19994 --- diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 3a2ed3f..43e1468 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -853,6 +853,8 @@ space occupied by the original C<$0>. In some platforms there may be arbitrary amount of padding, for example space characters, after the modified name as shown by C. +In some platforms this padding may extend all the way to the original +length of the argument area, no matter what you do. Note for BSD users: setting C<$0> does not completely remove "perl" from the ps(1) output. For example, setting C<$0> to C<"foobar"> may