[perl #59652][DOC PATCH] "Too late for "-CS" option"

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(tweaked)

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diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index 1b8f1a0..aea7998 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ that enabled the use of Unicode-aware "wide system call" Win32 APIs.
 This feature was practically unused, however, and the command line
 switch was therefore "recycled".)
 
+B<Note:> Since perl 5.10.0, the -C option can no longer be used
+on the #! line. It wasn't working there anyway, since the standard streams
+are already set up at this point in the execution of the perl interpreter.
+You can use binmode() instead to get the desired behaviour.
+
 =item B<-c>
 X<-c>