On Sun Mar 06 02:32:46 2016, jiangyy@outlook.com wrote: > the file-system runs out of space (when the replaced text is longer) It isn't necessary for the replaced text to be longer. We're unlinking the file, but keeping a file handle open to it. On a POSIX system the file will continue to take space until the file handle is closed. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127663Thread Next