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perltoc - perl documentation table of contents. DESCRIPTION. This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped through to locate the proper section you're looking for

On many operating systems, yield() is a no-op. Therefore it is important to note that one should not build the scheduling of the threads around yield() calls.

op/stat.t test 4 may fail if you are on a tmpfs of some sort. ... See nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent in the perlhpux manpage.

Besides the obvious documents, source code can be instructive. Some pathological examples of the use of references can be found in the t/op/ref.t regression test in the Perl

op/sprintf.FAILED at test 91 lib/Benchmark.FAILED at test 26. This is due to a bug in the C library's printf routine.

Since it is a no-op on other systems, binmode should be used for cross-platform code that deals with binary data.

The reasons for most important skipped tests are:. op/fs.t. ... You use an old version of GNU make. See Prerequisites. op/sprintf test failure.

$#foo]; # an expensive no-op @foo = @foo[$#foo-4. $#foo]; # slice last 5 items.

10.00% 7 lib/io_sock.t 14 1 7.14% 13 lib/io_udp.t 7 2 28.57% 3, 5 lib/posix.t 27 1 3.70% 12 ... lex_assign.t 187 1 0.53% 13 op/stat.t 58 1 1.72% 3 15 tests and 94 subtests skipped.

12 op/magic.t 30 2 6.67% 29-30 Failed 6/152 test scripts, 96.05% okay. ... I haven't bothered very much to find the reason for the failures with op/magic.t and op/stat.t.