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authorRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2016-03-17 19:49:28 -0400
committerRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2016-03-17 19:52:56 -0400
commitdf0d64c4362a87d672ee4136a9487b7671c48aab (patch)
treeed481bdd247ed31e3cc437c18e69352d6235e221
parent502aca567e314961f1dba0d4370a52b048dbe33a (diff)
downloadperl-df0d64c4362a87d672ee4136a9487b7671c48aab.tar.gz
perldelta: document exception thrown when -i output close fails
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@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ XXX Any important notices here
=head1 Core Enhancements
-XXX New core language features go here. Summarize user-visible core language
-enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go
-here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
+=head2 perl will now croak when closing an in-place output file fails
-[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
+Until now, failure to close the output file for an in-place edit was not
+detected, meaning that the input file could be clobbered without the edit being
+successfully completed. Now, when the output file cannot be closed
+successfully, an exception is raised.
=head1 Security