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Clear up a documentation confusion noticed by Xiaoyun Wu
authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:26:17 +0000 (16:26 +0000)
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:26:17 +0000 (16:26 +0000)
<xwu@theeducationcenter.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11888

lib/File/Find.pm

index 0d6252a..eb4b2de 100644 (file)
@@ -176,10 +176,13 @@ produces something like:
         ($File::Find::prune = 1);
     }
 
+Notice the C<_> in the above C<int(-M _)>: the C<_> is a magical
+filehandle that caches the information from the preceding
+stat(), lstat(), or filetest.
+
 Set the variable C<$File::Find::dont_use_nlink> if you're using AFS,
 since AFS cheats.
 
-
 Here's another interesting wanted function.  It will find all symbolic
 links that don't resolve: