Portability and doc tweaks to PerlIO/XS stuff.

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

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index ee3c617..3626c1d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -862,6 +862,16 @@ switches, or explicitly, failed for the indicated reason.  Usually this
 is because you don't have read permission for a file which you named on
 the command line.
 
+=item Can't open a reference
+
+(W io) You tried to open a scalar reference for reading or writing,
+using the 3-arg open() syntax :
+
+    open FH, '>', $ref;
+
+but your version of perl is compiled without perlio, and this form of
+open is not supported.
+
 =item Can't open bidirectional pipe
 
 (W pipe) You tried to say C<open(CMD, "|cmd|")>, which is not supported.
@@ -3716,12 +3726,6 @@ what you are doing you can turn off this warning by C<no warnings 'utf8';>.
 (F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine with this byte
 order.
 
-=item Unknown discipline '%s'
-
-(F) You specified an unknown I/O discipline.  See L<open> for valid
-filehandle disciplines and L<perlfunc/opendir> for valid directory
-handle disciplines.
-
 =item Unknown "re" subpragma '%s' (known ones are: %s)
 
 You tried to use an unknown subpragma of the "re" pragma.
@@ -3744,7 +3748,7 @@ discovered.  See L<perlre>.
 
 (F) The second argument of 3-argument open() is not among the list
 of valid modes: C<< < >>, C<< > >>, C<<< >> >>>, C<< +< >>,
-C<< +> >>, C<<< +>> >>>, C<-|>, C<|->.
+C<< +> >>, C<<< +>> >>>, C<-|>, C<|->, C<< <& >>, C<< >& >>.
 
 =item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s