svn commit: r708947 - /perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/api/APR/Finfo.pod

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Author: pgollucci
Date: Wed Oct 29 10:26:37 2008
New Revision: 708947

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=708947&view=rev
Log:
Submitted by: Joachim Zobel <jz...@heute-morgen.de>
Helped by: Adam Prime <ad...@utoronto.ca>

Perl's stat returns the mode as an octal number where as
mod_perl's APR based protection() returns the mode as a hexadecimal
number.

More information is available in:
  perldoc -f stat
  apr's file_io implementation


Modified:
    perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/api/APR/Finfo.pod

Modified: perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/api/APR/Finfo.pod
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/api/APR/Finfo.pod?rev=708947&r1=708946&r2=708947&view=diff
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--- perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/api/APR/Finfo.pod (original)
+++ perl/modperl/docs/trunk/src/docs/2.0/api/APR/Finfo.pod Wed Oct 29 10:26:37 2008
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   
   $device = $finfo->device;     # (stat $file)[0]
   $inode  = $finfo->inode;      # (stat $file)[1]
+  # stat returns an octal number while protection is hex
   $prot   = $finfo->protection; # (stat $file)[2]
   $nlink  = $finfo->nlink;      # (stat $file)[3]
   $gid    = $finfo->group;      # (stat $file)[4]
@@ -411,7 +412,11 @@
 
   (stat $filename)[2]
 
+Note: Perl's stat returns an octal number while
+mod_perl's C<protection> returns a hex number.
 
+See perldoc -f stat and APR's file_io for more information 
+on each.
 
 
 



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