Bug#492405: perl-doc: Typo in File::Copy(3perl)

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:22:26PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.8-7etch3
> Severity: minor
> 
> "The system copy routine may also be called directly under VMS and OS/2"
> 
> In the above, "VMS" should be "Windows"; VMS is dealt with later in the
> sentence.

Quoting the whole paragraph:

 The system copy routine may also be called directly under VMS and OS/2
 as "File::Copy::syscopy" (or under VMS as "File::Copy::rmscopy", which
 is the routine that does the actual work for syscopy).

This parses as "VMS => you can use either syscopy or rmscopy to access the
system copy routine; OS/2 => just syscopy does this". This interpretation
seems to match the actual code.

I believe the point is that OS/2 and VMS replace the File::Copy::syscopy
symbol table entry with the actual system copy routine (hence "directly")
while the others (MacOS, Win32) introduce an intermediate subroutine.

I don't see a bug here, please let me know if I can close this.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org