From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:59:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: win32 caveats about truncate()
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4cfdb94f48973a3a80f0c62a75e4f38caf0eb7a2;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git

win32 caveats about truncate()

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1905
---

diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index e53818e..fce35ac 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -1450,6 +1450,11 @@ Not implemented. (VMS)
 
 Truncation to zero-length only. (VOS)
 
+If a FILEHANDLE is supplied, it must be writable and opened in append
+mode (i.e., use C<open(FH, '>>filename')>
+or C<sysopen(FH,...,O_APPEND|O_RDWR)>.  If a filename is supplied, it
+should not be held open elsewhere. (Win32)
+
 =item umask EXPR
 
 =item umask