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| author | Colin Kuskie <ckuskie@cadence.com> | 1999-08-31 04:24:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-09-01 12:08:04 +0000 |
| commit | 10f9c03dadf6f1b8284a5636eec24431c23a2c13 (patch) | |
| tree | 593496a0184a6e49c032679e213d0b7868ca615d /pod | |
| parent | c212fd856fd0936eb904513d43838a7d254f2a09 (diff) | |
| download | perl-10f9c03dadf6f1b8284a5636eec24431c23a2c13.tar.gz | |
[REPATCH 5.005_61] Re: perldiag.pod omissions
To: Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
cc: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>,
The Perl Porters Mailing List <perl5-porters@perl.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908311055460.11290-100000@pdxult10a.cadence.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4062
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 87b5d9e748..60a901ea03 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ See L<warnings>. Some of these messages are generic. Spots that vary are denoted with a %s, just as in a printf format. Note that some messages start with a %s! -The symbols C<"%(-?@> sort before the letters, while C<[> and C<\> sort after. +Since the messages are listed in alphabetical order, the symbols +C<"%(-?@> sort before the letters, while C<[> and C<\> sort after. =over 4 @@ -672,9 +673,11 @@ They must have ordinary identifiers as names. from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have to say C<-i.bak>, or some such. -=item Can't do inplace edit: %s E<gt> 14 characters +=item Can't do inplace edit: %s would not be unique -(S) There isn't enough room in the filename to make a backup name for the file. +(S) Your filesystem does not support filenames longer than 14 +characters and Perl was unable to create a unique filename during +inplace editing with the B<-i> switch. The file was ignored. =item Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file @@ -921,10 +924,16 @@ pointers into them. You tried to redefine one such sort subroutine when it was currently active, which is not allowed. If you really want to do this, you should write C<sort { &func } @x> instead of C<sort func @x>. +=item Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file + +(S) You requested an inplace edit without creating a backup file. Perl +was unable to remove the original file to replace it with the modified +file. The file was left unmodified. + =item Can't rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file -(S) The rename done by the B<-i> switch failed for some reason, probably because -you don't have write permission to the directory. +(S) The rename done by the B<-i> switch failed for some reason, +probably because you don't have write permission to the directory. =item Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in binary mode |