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authorGerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>2002-06-01 06:14:43 +0200
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-01 01:16:59 +0000
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[Patch] Inplace editing on Cygwin and others?
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> Message-ID: <199100765833.20020601041443@familiehaase.de> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16946
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@@ -401,8 +401,9 @@ Win9x can not rename() an open file (although WinNT can).
The Cygwin chroot() implementation has holes (it can not restrict file
access by native Win32 programs).
-Inplace editing ( perl -i ) of files doesn't work without doing a backup
-of the file being edited ( perl -i.bak ).
+Inplace editing C<perl -i> of files doesn't work without doing a backup
+of the file being edited C<perl -i.bak> because of windowish restrictions,
+so Perl does this automagically if you just use C<perl -i>.
=back