From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:15:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: perlport tweaks. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1516da7e8b82e9629d3c329f6f0664c7c80d68a;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git perlport tweaks. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15073 --- diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index fd0098a..d8b9c9b 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -362,6 +362,10 @@ many networking schemes and utilities for separating the nodename and the pathname, and so on). For the same reasons, avoid C<@>, C<;> and C<|>. +Don't assume that in pathnames you can collapse two leading slashes +C into one: some networking and clustering filesystems have special +semantics for that. Let the operating system to sort it out. + The I as defined by ANSI C are a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r t u v w x y z @@ -370,11 +374,11 @@ The I as defined by ANSI C are . _ - and the "-" shouldn't be the first character. If you want to be -hypercorrect, stay within the 8.3 naming convention (all the files and -directories have to be unique within one directory if their names are -lowercased and truncated to eight characters before the C<.>, if any, -and to three characters after the C<.>, if any). (And do not use -C<.>s in directory names.) +hypercorrect, stay case-insensitive and within the 8.3 naming +convention (all the files and directories have to be unique within one +directory if their names are lowercased and truncated to eight +characters before the C<.>, if any, and to three characters after the +C<.>, if any). (And do not use C<.>s in directory names.) =head2 System Interaction @@ -676,6 +680,7 @@ are a few of the more popular Unix flavors: -------------------------------------------- AIX aix aix BSD/OS bsdos i386-bsdos + Darwin darwin darwin dgux dgux AViiON-dgux DYNIX/ptx dynixptx i386-dynixptx FreeBSD freebsd freebsd-i386