sanity check piped opens (tweaked version of patch suggested

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldiag.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index e0e9b12..211262c 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1546,6 +1546,11 @@ one line to the next.
 (F) While certain functions allow you to specify a filehandle or an
 "indirect object" before the argument list, this ain't one of them.
 
+=item Missing command in piped open
+
+(W) You used the C<open(FH, "| command")> or C<open(FH, "command |")>
+construction, but the command was missing or blank.
+
 =item Missing operator before %s?
 
 (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s