perl/lib/filetest.pm

1 package filetest;
7 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
13         use filetest 'access';		# intuit harder
20 This pragma tells the compiler to change the behaviour of the filetest
28 For such environments, C<use filetest> may help the permission
31 The C<use filetest> or C<no filetest> statements affect file tests defined in
47 There may be a slight performance decrease in the filetest operations
48 when the filetest pragma is in effect, because checking bits is very
66 The extended filetest functionality is used by Perl only when the argument
82  { use filetest 'access';
90 the filetest pragma is active!
92 As a side effect, as C<_> doesn't work, stacked filetest operators
99 $filetest::hint_bits = 0x00400000; # HINT_FILETEST_ACCESS
103 	$^H |= $filetest::hint_bits;
105 	die "filetest: the only implemented subpragma is 'access'.\n";
111 	$^H &= ~$filetest::hint_bits;
113 	die "filetest: the only implemented subpragma is 'access'.\n";