In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit 1c13323db058039bc6b70d5c08ae06a66e96b211
Author: David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>
Date: Thu Nov 1 11:10:49 2018 +0000
perlfunc: highlight -X behaviour on dangling symlinks
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Summary of changes:
pod/perlfunc.pod | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 9394e22343..016b98f73b 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -522,6 +522,10 @@ argument is omitted, tests L<C<$_>|perlvar/$_>, except for
C<-t>, which
tests STDIN. Unless otherwise documented, it returns C<1> for true and
C<''> for false. If the file doesn't exist or can't be examined, it
returns L<C<undef>|/undef EXPR> and sets L<C<$!>|perlvar/$!> (errno).
+With the exception of the C<-l> test they all follow symbolic links
+because they use C<stat()> and not C<lstat()> (so dangling symlinks can't
+be examined and will therefore report failure).
+
Despite the funny names, precedence is the same as any other named unary
operator. The operator may be any of:
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