X-Git-Url: http://git.vpit.fr/?p=perl%2Fmodules%2Findirect.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=a254d34e5faf457aba026e38de3c7627ef58446a;hp=88f2bebc41249c95d5ea200d6b4feb6335888ac2;hb=cf5208b77c6c9660f094662cc0f6d146f8b73121;hpb=b47c75970ab200626c92f26eab0f3a4a1123bb6f diff --git a/README b/README index 88f2beb..a254d34 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NAME indirect - Lexically warn about using the indirect object syntax. VERSION - Version 0.17 + Version 0.19 SYNOPSIS # In a script @@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ CONSTANTS True iff the module could have been built with thread-safety features enabled. + "I_FORKSAFE" + True iff this module could have been built with fork-safety features + enabled. This will always be true except on Windows where it's false for + perl 5.10.0 and below . + DIAGNOSTICS "Indirect call of method "%s" on object "%s" at %s line %d." The default warning/exception message thrown when an indirect call on an @@ -80,6 +85,19 @@ DIAGNOSTICS The default warning/exception message thrown when an indirect call on a block is found. +ENVIRONMENT + "PERL_INDIRECT_PM_DISABLE" + If this environment variable is set to true when the pragma is used for + the first time, the XS code won't be loaded and, although the 'indirect' + lexical hint will be set to true in the scope of use, the pragma itself + won't do anything. In this case, the pragma will always be considered to + be thread-safe, and as such "I_THREADSAFE" will be true. This is useful + for disabling "indirect" in production environments. + + Note that clearing this variable after "indirect" was loaded has no + effect. If you want to reenable the pragma later, you also need to + reload it by deleting the 'indirect.pm' entry from %INC. + CAVEATS The implementation was tweaked to work around several limitations of vanilla "perl" pragmas : it's thread safe, and doesn't suffer from a