On Nov 18, 6:34 pm, jwkr...@shaw.ca (John W. Krahn) wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
> > beginners:
>
> Hello,
>
> > Is unlink() supposed to provide an error message on failure?
>
> Yes. All Perl functions that interact with the underlying system will
> set $! on failure. ($! is the same as errno in C.)
>
Just thinking aloud (JTA?), there's a little verbosity gap in the
docs at times. For example, compare 'mkdir' and 'unlink docs:
mkdir Creates the directory specified by FILENAME, with
permissions
specified by MASK (as modified by "umask"). If it succeeds it
returns true, otherwise it returns false and sets $! (errno).
etc...
unlink Deletes a list of files. Returns the number of files
successfully deleted. etc...
JTA again, why not add "or returns false and sets $! (errno)." to the
sentence above.
Surely any perlfunc doc bloat would be trumped by the added clarity.
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Charles DeRykus
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