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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 018ebb757a..32f55be0a6 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecting to see an operator, it gives you this warning. Usually it indicates that an operator or delimiter was omitted, such as a semicolon. -=item %s had compilation errors. +=item %s had compilation errors (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> fails. -=item %s has too many errors. +=item %s has too many errors (F) The parser has given up trying to parse the program after 10 errors. Further error messages would likely be uninformative. @@ -119,19 +119,19 @@ before it could possibly have been used. (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> succeeds. -=item %s: Command not found. +=item %s: Command not found (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. Check the E<lt>#!E<gt> line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. -=item %s: Expression syntax. +=item %s: Expression syntax (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. Check the E<lt>#!E<gt> line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. -=item %s: Undefined variable. +=item %s: Undefined variable (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. Check the E<lt>#!E<gt> line, or manually feed your script @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ a missing quote, operator, parenthesis pair or declaration. (F) The setuid emulator requires that the arguments Perl was invoked with match the arguments specified on the #! line. -=item Argument "%s" isn't numeric +=item Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s (W) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the message @@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ single form when it must operate on them directly. Either you've passed an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the conversion routines don't handle. Drat. -=item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors. +=item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors (F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails. @@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@ because the world might have written on it already. (W) You tried to do a shutdown on a closed socket. Seems a bit superfluous. -=item SIG%s handler "%s" not defined. +=item SIG%s handler "%s" not defined (W) The signal handler named in %SIG doesn't, in fact, exist. Perhaps you put it into the wrong package? @@ -2089,7 +2089,7 @@ construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. That is, the absolute value of the offset was larger than the length of the string. See L<perlfunc/substr>. -=item suidperl is no longer needed since... +=item suidperl is no longer needed since %s (F) Your Perl was compiled with B<-D>SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW, but a version of the setuid emulator somehow got run anyway. @@ -2161,7 +2161,7 @@ out from under another module inadvertently. See L<perlvar/$[>. The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture, according to the probings of Configure. -=item The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia. +=item The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia (F) Configure couldn't find the crypt() function on your machine, probably because your vendor didn't supply it, probably because they @@ -2185,6 +2185,19 @@ you're not running on Unix. (F) There has to be at least one argument to syscall() to specify the system call to call, silly dilly. +=item Too late for "-T" option (try putting it first) + +(X) The #! line in a Perl script contains the "-T" option, but Perl +was not invoked with "-T" in its argument list. Due to the way Perl +handles tainting, by the time Perl discovers a "-T" in a script, it's +too late to properly taint everything from the environment. So Perl +gives up. + +This error can usually be fixed by editing the "#!" line so that the +"-T" option is in the Perl program's first argument. (Many operating +systems that implement the "#!" feature only pick up one argument from +it, so Perl has to get the rest on its own.) + =item Too many ('s =item Too many )'s @@ -2500,7 +2513,7 @@ reference variables in outer subroutines are called or referenced, they are automatically re-bound to the current values of such variables. -=item Variable syntax. +=item Variable syntax (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. Check the E<lt>#!E<gt> line, or manually feed your script @@ -2511,7 +2524,7 @@ into Perl yourself. (W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or you called it with no args and C<$_> was empty. -=item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly. +=item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly (S) The implicit close() done by an open() got an error indication on the close(). This usually indicates your file system ran out of disk space. |