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| author | Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> | 1999-08-11 11:56:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-08-11 22:17:55 +0000 |
| commit | 54195c32bb1734df4d96f8aca2d65e155aa0b341 (patch) | |
| tree | 4370ca8c88fcdb3c26a278c3beca2afb7fe545bf /pod | |
| parent | a5da935345a673c66c903bfd517404de47f816e1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-54195c32bb1734df4d96f8aca2d65e155aa0b341.tar.gz | |
Flush buffer before duplicating file descriptor.
To: Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
cc: Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>, perl5-porters@perl.org, mjd@plover.com
Subject: Re: [ID 19990811.002] can't dup DATA? (PATCH (5.005_57))
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:56:09 -0400
Message-ID: <19990811195610.5933.qmail@plover.com>
From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
To: perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject: Re: [ID 19990811.002] can't dup DATA? (PATCH (5.005_57))
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:05:46 -0400
Message-ID: <19990811200546.6165.qmail@plover.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3960
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 029d3154b6..28a786ebe1 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -301,6 +301,14 @@ are compile time errors. Attempting to read from filehandles that were opened only for writing will now produce warnings (just as writing to read-only filehandles does). +=head2 Buffered data discarded from input filehandle when dup'ed. + +C<open(NEW, "E<lt>&OLD")> now discards any data that was previously +read and buffered in C<OLD>. The next read operation on C<NEW> will +return the same data as the corresponding operation on C<OLD>. +Formerly, it would have returned the data from the start of the +following disk block instead. + =head1 Supported Platforms =over 4 |