make "lstat FH" croak

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

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 68bd0c2..76fb6aa 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1289,6 +1289,11 @@ something that isn't defined yet, you don't actually have to define the
 subroutine or package before the current location.  You can use an empty
 "sub foo;" or "package FOO;" to enter a "forward" declaration.
 
+=item dump() better written as CORE::dump()
+
+(W misc) You used the obsolescent C<dump()> built-in function, without fully
+qualifying it as C<CORE::dump()>.  Maybe it's a typo.  See L<perlfunc/dump>.
+
 =item Duplicate free() ignored
 
 (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had
@@ -1467,7 +1472,7 @@ to the end of your file without finding such a line.
 (W redefine) You redefined a format.  To suppress this warning, say
 
     {
-       no warnings;
+       no warnings 'redefine';
        eval "format NAME =...";
     }
 
@@ -1607,7 +1612,7 @@ to your Perl administrator.
 
 =item Illegal character in prototype for %s : %s
 
-(S) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration.  Legal
+(W syntax) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration.  Legal
 characters in prototypes are $, @, %, *, ;, [, ], &, and \.
 
 =item Illegal division by zero
@@ -1799,13 +1804,14 @@ neither as a system call or an ioctl call (SIOCATMARK).
 
 =item `%s' is not a code reference
 
-(W) The second (fourth, sixth, ...) argument of overload::constant needs
-to be a code reference. Either an anonymous subroutine, or a reference
+(W overload) The second (fourth, sixth, ...) argument of overload::constant
+needs to be a code reference. Either an anonymous subroutine, or a reference
 to a subroutine.
 
 =item `%s' is not an overloadable type
 
-(W) You tried to overload a constant type the overload package is unaware of.
+(W overload) You tried to overload a constant type the overload package is
+unaware of.
 
 =item junk on end of regexp
 
@@ -1840,12 +1846,6 @@ effective uids or gids failed.
 to check the return value of your socket() call?  See
 L<perlfunc/listen>.
 
-=item lstat() on filehandle %s
-
-(W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle.  What did you mean
-by that?  lstat() makes sense only on filenames.  (Perl did a fstat()
-instead on the filehandle.)
-
 =item Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet
 
 (F) Due to limitations in the current implementation, array and hash
@@ -2362,8 +2362,13 @@ See also L<perlport> for writing portable code.
 
 =item Odd number of arguments for overload::constant
 
-(W) The call to overload::constant contained an odd number of arguments.
-The arguments should come in pairs.
+(W overload) The call to overload::constant contained an odd number of
+arguments. The arguments should come in pairs.
+
+=item Odd number of elements in anonymous hash
+
+(W misc) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash,
+which is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs.
 
 =item Odd number of elements in hash assignment
 
@@ -2504,7 +2509,7 @@ reference.
 (P) We popped the context stack to an eval context, and then discovered
 it wasn't an eval context.
 
-=item panic: pp_match
+=item panic: pp_match%s
 
 (P) The internal pp_match() routine was called with invalid operational
 data.
@@ -3171,11 +3176,9 @@ account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables
 location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less.
 Please see the following for more information:
 
-       http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
-       http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
-       ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq
-       http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
-       http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
+       http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html
+       http://www.htmlhelp.org/faq/cgifaq.html
+       http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/
 
 You should also look at L<perlfaq9>.
 
@@ -3292,7 +3295,7 @@ C<can> may break this.
 (W redefine) You redefined a subroutine.  To suppress this warning, say
 
     {
-       no warnings;
+       no warnings 'redefine';
        eval "sub name { ... }";
     }
 
@@ -3662,6 +3665,15 @@ iterating over it, and someone else stuck a message in the stream of
 data Perl expected.  Someone's very confused, or perhaps trying to
 subvert Perl's population of %ENV for nefarious purposes.
 
+=item Unknown warnings category '%s'
+
+(F) An error issued by the C<warnings> pragma. You specified a warnings
+category that is unknown to perl at this point.
+
+Note that if you want to enable a warnings category registered by a module
+(e.g. C<use warnings 'File::Find'>), you must have imported this module
+first.
+
 =item unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
 
 (F) The brackets around a character class must match. If you wish to
@@ -4166,7 +4178,10 @@ So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.
 
 =item Wide character in %s
 
-(W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting one.
+(W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
+one.  This warning is by default on for I/O (like print) but can be
+turned off by C<no warnings 'utf8';>.  You are supposed to explicitly
+mark the filehandle with an encoding, see L<open> and L<perlfunc/binmode>.
 
 =item write() on closed filehandle %s
 
@@ -4199,6 +4214,11 @@ supported.
 it already went past any symlink you are presumably trying to look for.
 Use a filename instead.
 
+=item You can't use lstat() on a filehandle
+
+(F) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle. lstat() makes sense only
+on filenames.
+
 =item YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET!
 
 (F) And you probably never will, because you probably don't have the