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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Bug in perl -pi (REPOST)
Message-ID: <11221@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 29 Jan 91 21:00:12 GMT
References: <2162@inews.intel.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2162@inews.intel.com> jsweedle@mipos2.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler) writes:
: I used "perl -pi" to edit a file in place.  I had write permission for
: the file that I was working on but I did not have write permission for
: the directory in which it sat.  The end result was that perl erased the
: file (changed it to length of 0) without giving any warning or error
: messages.

That was fixed in patch 44.

Larry