From: Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:00:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document that -i messes soft as well hard hard links.
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0cb0633f672fc6005f4c2ac2d095ce9b3152b1a4;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git

document that -i messes soft as well hard hard links.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23160
---

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index be366f8..e99729e 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -534,8 +534,8 @@ folks use it for their backup files:
     $ perl -pi~ -e 's/foo/bar/' file1 file2 file3...
 
 Note that because B<-i> renames or deletes the original file before
-creating a new file of the same name, UNIX-style hard links will not be
-preserved.
+creating a new file of the same name, UNIX-style soft and hard links will
+not be preserved.
 
 Finally, the B<-i> switch does not impede execution when no
 files are given on the command line.  In this case, no backup is made