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24 years ago From cj10@cam.ac.uk
The module IO::Handle provides methods ioctl and fcntl.
These methods are not mentioned in the POD\, so I suppose I shouldn't be complaining about them. However\, since one expects them to exist\, they are easy to call by accident. Moreover\, if they worked\, they would be useful.
So\, here goes.
There are two problems.
1. Each method copies its third argument before calling the corresponding built-in. This is wrong\, because both built-ins may return results via the third argument. I claim that this is a plain bug which should be fixed.
2. Each method returns 0 if the corresponding built-in returns "0 but true". This is a highly surprising difference of spec from the expected "just front ends for the corresponding built-in functions". If it isn't a bug it requires careful documentation.
Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:
Configured by cj10 at Tue Jun 8 12:07:36 BST 1999.
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