From 61967be2c930c0a1754925d7a1d1c2924a3b57ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:48:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Re: [perl #27906] stat documentation correction Message-Id:
 <20040325034830.GA5865@petdance.com> (Applied with a correction from Spider
 Boardman.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22593
---
 pod/perlfunc.pod | 16 ++++++++--------
 t/op/stat.t      | 14 ++++++++------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 96dabbb..2c368e9 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -5352,7 +5352,7 @@ as follows:
            = stat($filename);
 
 Not all fields are supported on all filesystem types.  Here are the
-meaning of the fields:
+meanings of the fields:
 
   0 dev      device number of filesystem
   1 ino      inode number
@@ -5370,13 +5370,13 @@ meaning of the fields:
 
 (The epoch was at 00:00 January 1, 1970 GMT.)
 
-(*) The ctime field is non-portable, in particular you cannot expect
+(*) The ctime field is non-portable.  In particular, you cannot expect
 it to be a "creation time", see L<perlport/"Files and Filesystems">
 for details.
 
-If stat is passed the special filehandle consisting of an underline, no
+If C<stat> is passed the special filehandle consisting of an underline, no
 stat is done, but the current contents of the stat structure from the
-last stat or filetest are returned.  Example:
+last C<stat>, C<lstat>, or filetest are returned.  Example:
 
     if (-x $file && (($d) = stat(_)) && $d < 0) {
 	print "$file is executable NFS file\n";
@@ -5421,7 +5421,7 @@ You can import symbolic mode constants (C<S_IF*>) and functions
     $is_setgid     =  S_ISDIR($mode);
 
 You could write the last two using the C<-u> and C<-d> operators.
-The commonly available S_IF* constants are
+The commonly available C<S_IF*> constants are
 
     # Permissions: read, write, execute, for user, group, others.
 
@@ -5442,7 +5442,7 @@ The commonly available S_IF* constants are
 
     S_IREAD S_IWRITE S_IEXEC
 
-and the S_IF* functions are
+and the C<S_IF*> functions are
 
     S_IMODE($mode)	the part of $mode containing the permission bits
 			and the setuid/setgid/sticky bits
@@ -5451,7 +5451,7 @@ and the S_IF* functions are
 			which can be bit-anded with e.g. S_IFREG
                         or with the following functions
 
-    # The operators -f, -d, -l, -b, -c, -p, and -s.
+    # The operators -f, -d, -l, -b, -c, -p, and -S.
 
     S_ISREG($mode) S_ISDIR($mode) S_ISLNK($mode)
     S_ISBLK($mode) S_ISCHR($mode) S_ISFIFO($mode) S_ISSOCK($mode)
@@ -5463,7 +5463,7 @@ and the S_IF* functions are
     S_ISENFMT($mode) S_ISWHT($mode)
 
 See your native chmod(2) and stat(2) documentation for more details
-about the S_* constants.  To get status info for a symbolic link
+about the C<S_*> constants.  To get status info for a symbolic link
 instead of the target file behind the link, use the C<lstat> function.
 
 =item study SCALAR
diff --git a/t/op/stat.t b/t/op/stat.t
index 3cc3f0a..23445c2 100755
--- a/t/op/stat.t
+++ b/t/op/stat.t
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ $Is_Solaris = $^O eq 'solaris';
 $Is_VMS     = $^O eq 'VMS';
 $Is_DGUX    = $^O eq 'dgux';
 $Is_MPRAS   = $^O =~ /svr4/ && -f '/etc/.relid';
+$Is_Rhapsody= $^O eq 'rhapsody';
 
 $Is_Dosish  = $Is_Dos || $Is_OS2 || $Is_MSWin32 || $Is_NetWare || $Is_Cygwin;
 
@@ -112,10 +113,11 @@ SKIP: {
             !isnt($mtime, $ctime, 'hard link ctime != mtime') ) {
             print STDERR <<DIAG;
 # Check if you are on a tmpfs of some sort.  Building in /tmp sometimes
-# has this problem.  Also building on the ClearCase VOBS filesystem may
+# has this problem.  Building on the ClearCase VOBS filesystem may also
 # cause this failure.
-# Darwins UFS doesn't have a ctime concept, and thus is
-# expected to fail this test.
+#
+# Darwin's UFS doesn't have a ctime concept, and thus is expected to fail
+# this test.
 DIAG
         }
     }
@@ -176,7 +178,7 @@ ok(-r $tmpfile,     '   -r');
 ok(-w $tmpfile,     '   -w');
 
 SKIP: {
-    skip "-x simply determins if a file ends in an executable suffix", 1
+    skip "-x simply determines if a file ends in an executable suffix", 1
       if $Is_Dosish || $Is_MacOS;
 
     ok(-x $tmpfile,     '   -x');
@@ -212,7 +214,7 @@ SKIP: {
       if $Is_MSWin32 || $Is_NetWare || $Is_Dos;
     skip "/dev isn't available to test against", 6
       unless -d '/dev' && -r '/dev' && -x '/dev';
-    skip "Skipping; unexpected ls output in MP-RAS", 6
+    skip "Skipping: unexpected ls output in MP-RAS", 6
       if $Is_MPRAS;
 
     my $LS  = $Config{d_readlink} ? "ls -lL" : "ls -l";
@@ -307,7 +309,7 @@ SKIP: {
 SKIP: {
     skip "These tests require a TTY", 4 if $ENV{PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST};
 
-    my $TTY = $^O eq 'rhapsody' ? "/dev/ttyp0" : "/dev/tty";
+    my $TTY = $Is_Rhapsody ? "/dev/ttyp0" : "/dev/tty";
 
     SKIP: {
         skip "Test uses unixisms", 2 if $Is_MSWin32 || $Is_NetWare;
-- 
1.8.3.1