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| author | Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de> | 2002-06-01 06:14:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-01 01:16:59 +0000 |
| commit | c030f24b810c923631239a170282534aaf44e4ba (patch) | |
| tree | fbc3454c343b29f9943b44fd5d5c4bb3e4a6b414 /README.cygwin | |
| parent | 4c7fc0a422d59e20b533b9ae25dd19c2ebfb68b6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c030f24b810c923631239a170282534aaf44e4ba.tar.gz | |
[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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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README.cygwin b/README.cygwin index c09eeaba6a..99d0a4f598 100644 --- a/README.cygwin +++ b/README.cygwin @@ -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 |