- * For whatever reason, perl believes itself to be smarter than your operating system by default, and checks permissions by looking at the permission bits on files, rather than using `access(2)`. (See [filetest] (filetest) on CPAN). Furthermore, when installing modules, CPAN checks to see if you have write permissions on the destination, and aborts if it doesn't think you do, without even trying. I have been unable to find a way to override either of these behaviors.
+ * For whatever reason, perl believes itself to be smarter than your operating system by default, and checks permissions by looking at the permission bits on files, rather than using `access(2)`. (See [filetest][filetest] in the Perl docs.) Furthermore, when installing modules, CPAN checks to see if you have write permissions on the destination, and aborts if it doesn't think you do, without even trying. I have been unable to find a way to override either of these behaviors.