On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:22:26PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Package: perl-doc > Version: 5.8.8-7etch3 > Severity: minor > > "The system copy routine may also be called directly under VMS and OS/2" > > In the above, "VMS" should be "Windows"; VMS is dealt with later in the > sentence.
Quoting the whole paragraph: The system copy routine may also be called directly under VMS and OS/2 as "File::Copy::syscopy" (or under VMS as "File::Copy::rmscopy", which is the routine that does the actual work for syscopy). This parses as "VMS => you can use either syscopy or rmscopy to access the system copy routine; OS/2 => just syscopy does this". This interpretation seems to match the actual code. I believe the point is that OS/2 and VMS replace the File::Copy::syscopy symbol table entry with the actual system copy routine (hence "directly") while the others (MacOS, Win32) introduce an intermediate subroutine. I don't see a bug here, please let me know if I can close this. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
