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On Mon, 09 Aug 2010, Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 22:44, Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org> wrote: > > > Shouldn't we either die loudly saying that Windows doesn't support > > clobbering with "perl -pi" > > It turns out (as pointed out by Jan Dubois) that we've been doing > exactly that since Perl 3: > > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ff8e2863?hp=8725079938 > > Since about then we've been dying on DOSISH and AMIGA, it's just > Cygwin that's the exception. > > Maybe that exception can be removed now? It was just added as a > workaround to get the KDE build system working on Cygwin. It seems odd > to have such a monkeypatch in perl core. The problem is that the monkeypatch is documented (in README.cygwin), so just removing it doesn't feel quite right either. Ideally someone would go in and update the patch to remove the backup file when it is being closed. Then this patch could be enabled for other DOSISH platforms too (maybe with a somewhat more obscure extension than .bak to avoid conflicts with existing filenames). Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next