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| author | Craig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com> | 2016-04-14 14:23:52 -0500 |
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| committer | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2016-06-08 13:48:47 +1000 |
| commit | 2104c6951fdadf57c33668bc253de5ea871c9335 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e965028ab7b581e9e264b323ce90c9276b678ca /pod/perlrun.pod | |
| parent | 64320867983cca6494b5d7efcd95af322feacf0c (diff) | |
| download | perl-2104c6951fdadf57c33668bc253de5ea871c9335.tar.gz | |
(perl #127380) Update PERLIO_DEBUG documentation.
Now defaults to stderr if unspecified, and requires -Di (and thus
-DDEBUGGING).
TonyC: modify a couple of verbatim lines to bring them under the limit
enforced by the new podcheck.t changes
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlrun.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index ecd2adfd6f..349e91e3d6 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -1155,19 +1155,22 @@ is run in taint mode. =item PERLIO_DEBUG X<PERLIO_DEBUG> -If set to the name of a file or device, certain operations of PerlIO -subsystem will be logged to that file, which is opened in append mode. -Typical uses are in Unix: +If set to the name of a file or device when Perl is run with the +B<-Di> command-line switch, the logging of certain operations of +the PerlIO subsystem will be redirected to the specified file rather +than going to stderr, which is the default. The file is opened in append +mode. Typical uses are in Unix: - % env PERLIO_DEBUG=/dev/tty perl script ... + % env PERLIO_DEBUG=/tmp/perlio.log perl -Di script ... and under Win32, the approximately equivalent: > set PERLIO_DEBUG=CON - perl script ... + perl -Di script ... -This functionality is disabled for setuid scripts and for scripts run -with B<-T>. +This functionality is disabled for setuid scripts, for scripts run +with B<-T>, and for scripts run on a Perl built without C<-DDEBUGGING> +support. =item PERLLIB X<PERLLIB> |