[DOC PATCH] $^X isn't necessarily argv[0]

Message-ID: <20060130090624.GA3760@efn.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@26999

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 30d2888..b63973e 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ See the documentation of C<warnings> for more details.
 =item $^X
 
 The name used to execute the current copy of Perl, from C's
-C<argv[0]>.
+C<argv[0]> or (where supported) F</proc/self/exe>.
 
 Depending on the host operating system, the value of $^X may be
 a relative or absolute pathname of the perl program file, or may