This allows the programmer to look at the execution stack and variables to
find out the cause of the exception. As the debugger is being invoked as
the Perl interpreter is about to do a fatal exit, continuing the execution
-in debug mode is usally not practical.
+in debug mode is usually not practical.
Starting Perl in the VMS debugger may change the program execution
profile in a way that such problems are not reproduced.
caller, chdir, chmod, chown, chomp, chop, chr,
close, closedir, cos, crypt*, defined, delete, die, do, dump*,
each, endgrent, endpwent, eof, eval, exec*, exists, exit, exp,
- fileno, flock getc, getgrent*, getgrgid*, getgrnam, getlogin, getppid,
- getpwent*, getpwnam*, getpwuid*, glob, gmtime*, goto,
+ fileno, flock getc, getgrent*, getgrgid*, getgrnam, getlogin,
+ getppid, getpwent*, getpwnam*, getpwuid*, glob, gmtime*, goto,
grep, hex, ioctl, import, index, int, join, keys, kill*,
- last, lc, lcfirst, lchown*, length, link*, local, localtime, log, lstat, m//,
- map, mkdir, my, next, no, oct, open, opendir, ord, pack,
- pipe, pop, pos, print, printf, push, q//, qq//, qw//,
- qx//*, quotemeta, rand, read, readdir, readlink*, redo, ref, rename,
- require, reset, return, reverse, rewinddir, rindex,
+ last, lc, lcfirst, lchown*, length, link*, local, localtime, log,
+ lstat, m//, map, mkdir, my, next, no, oct, open, opendir, ord,
+ pack, pipe, pop, pos, print, printf, push, q//, qq//, qw//,
+ qx//*, quotemeta, rand, read, readdir, readlink*, redo, ref,
+ rename, require, reset, return, reverse, rewinddir, rindex,
rmdir, s///, scalar, seek, seekdir, select(internal),
select (system call)*, setgrent, setpwent, shift, sin, sleep,
socketpair, sort, splice, split, sprintf, sqrt, srand, stat,
=item CRTL_ENV
-This string tells Perl to consult the CRTL's internal C<environ>
-array of key-value pairs, using I<name> as the key. In most cases,
-this contains only a few keys, but if Perl was invoked via the C
-C<exec[lv]e()> function, as is the case for CGI processing by some
-HTTP servers, then the C<environ> array may have been populated by
-the calling program.
+This string tells Perl to consult the CRTL's internal C<environ> array
+of key-value pairs, using I<name> as the key. In most cases, this
+contains only a few keys, but if Perl was invoked via the C
+C<exec[lv]e()> function, as is the case for some embedded Perl
+applications or when running under a shell such as GNV bash, the
+C<environ> array may have been populated by the calling program.
=item CLISYM_[LOCAL]
you make while Perl is running do not affect the behavior of C<%ENV>.
If F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> is not defined, then Perl defaults to consulting
first the logical name tables specified by F<LNM$FILE_DEV>, and then
-the CRTL C<environ> array.
+the CRTL C<environ> array. This default order is reversed when the
+logical name F<GNV$UNIX_SHELL> is defined, such as when running under
+GNV bash.
In all operations on %ENV, the key string is treated as if it
were entirely uppercase, regardless of the case actually
(The same is done if an existing logical name was defined in
executive or kernel mode; an existing user or supervisor mode
logical name is reset to the new value.) If the value is an empty
-string, the logical name's translation is defined as a single NUL
-(ASCII 00) character, since a logical name cannot translate to a
+string, the logical name's translation is defined as a single C<NUL>
+(ASCII C<\0>) character, since a logical name cannot translate to a
zero-length string. (This restriction does not apply to CLI symbols
or CRTL C<environ> values; they are set to the empty string.)
-An element of the CRTL C<environ> array can be set only if your
-copy of Perl knows about the CRTL's C<setenv()> function. (This is
-present only in some versions of the DECCRTL; check C<$Config{d_setenv}>
-to see whether your copy of Perl was built with a CRTL that has this
-function.)
-
-When an element of C<%ENV> is set to C<undef>,
-the element is looked up as if it were being read, and if it is
-found, it is deleted. (An item "deleted" from the CRTL C<environ>
-array is set to the empty string; this can only be done if your
-copy of Perl knows about the CRTL C<setenv()> function.) Using
-C<delete> to remove an element from C<%ENV> has a similar effect,
-but after the element is deleted, another attempt is made to
-look up the element, so an inner-mode logical name or a name in
-another location will replace the logical name just deleted.
-In either case, only the first value found searching PERL_ENV_TABLES
-is altered. It is not possible at present to define a search list
+
+When an element of C<%ENV> is set to C<undef>, the element is looked
+up as if it were being read, and if it is found, it is deleted. (An
+item "deleted" from the CRTL C<environ> array is set to the empty
+string.) Using C<delete> to remove an element from C<%ENV> has a
+similar effect, but after the element is deleted, another attempt is
+made to look up the element, so an inner-mode logical name or a name
+in another location will replace the logical name just deleted. In
+either case, only the first value found searching PERL_ENV_TABLES is
+altered. It is not possible at present to define a search list
logical name via %ENV.
The element C<$ENV{DEFAULT}> is special: when read, it returns
process-permanent files, such as C<SYS$INPUT> and C<SYS$OUTPUT>.
The translations for these logical names are prepended with a
two-byte binary value (0x1B 0x00) that needs to be stripped off
-if you wantto use it. (In previous versions of Perl it wasn't
+if you want to use it. (In previous versions of Perl it wasn't
possible to get the values of these logical names, as the null
byte acted as an end-of-string marker)