windows-server-2003/tools/perl/lib/pod/perldiag.pod


								=head1 NAME


								perldiag - various Perl diagnostics


								=head1 DESCRIPTION


								These messages are classified as follows (listed in increasing order of

								desperation):


								    (W) A warning (optional).

								    (D) A deprecation (optional).

								    (S) A severe warning (default).

								    (F) A fatal error (trappable).

								    (P) An internal error you should never see (trappable).

								    (X) A very fatal error (nontrappable).

								    (A) An alien error message (not generated by Perl).


								The majority of messages from the first three classifications above

								(W, D & S) can be controlled using the C<warnings> pragma.


								If a message can be controlled by the C<warnings> pragma, its warning

								category is included with the classification letter in the description

								below.


								Optional warnings are enabled by using the C<warnings> pragma or the B<-w>

								and B<-W> switches. Warnings may be captured by setting C<$SIG{__WARN__}>

								to a reference to a routine that will be called on each warning instead

								of printing it.  See L<perlvar>.


								Default warnings are always enabled unless they are explicitly disabled

								with the C<warnings> pragma or the B<-X> switch.


								Trappable errors may be trapped using the eval operator.  See

								L<perlfunc/eval>.  In almost all cases, warnings may be selectively

								disabled or promoted to fatal errors using the C<warnings> pragma.

								See L<warnings>.


								The messages are in alphabetical order, without regard to upper or

								lower-case.  Some of these messages are generic.  Spots that vary are

								denoted with a %s or other printf-style escape.  These escapes are

								ignored by the alphabetical order, as are all characters other than

								letters.  To look up your message, just ignore anything that is not a

								letter.


								=over 4


								=item accept() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to do an accept on a closed socket.  Did you forget

								to check the return value of your socket() call?  See

								L<perlfunc/accept>.


								=item Allocation too large: %lx


								(X) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine.


								=item '!' allowed only after types %s


								(F) The '!' is allowed in pack() and unpack() only after certain types.

								See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &


								(W ambiguous) A subroutine you have declared has the same name as a Perl

								keyword, and you have used the name without qualification for calling

								one or the other.  Perl decided to call the builtin because the

								subroutine is not imported.


								To force interpretation as a subroutine call, either put an ampersand

								before the subroutine name, or qualify the name with its package.

								Alternatively, you can import the subroutine (or pretend that it's

								imported with the C<use subs> pragma).


								To silently interpret it as the Perl operator, use the C<CORE::> prefix

								on the operator (e.g. C<CORE::log($x)>) or by declaring the subroutine

								to be an object method (see L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes"> or

								L<attributes>).


								=item Ambiguous use of %s resolved as %s


								(W ambiguous)(S) You said something that may not be interpreted the way

								you thought.  Normally it's pretty easy to disambiguate it by supplying

								a missing quote, operator, parenthesis pair or declaration.


								=item '|' and '<' may not both be specified on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl does its own command line

								redirection, and found that STDIN was a pipe, and that you also tried to

								redirect STDIN using '<'.  Only one STDIN stream to a customer, please.


								=item '|' and '>' may not both be specified on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl does its own command line

								redirection, and thinks you tried to redirect stdout both to a file and

								into a pipe to another command.  You need to choose one or the other,

								though nothing's stopping you from piping into a program or Perl script

								which 'splits' output into two streams, such as


								    open(OUT,">$ARGV[0]") or die "Can't write to $ARGV[0]: $!";

								    while (<STDIN>) {

								        print;

								        print OUT;

								    }

								    close OUT;


								=item Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s)


								(W misc) The pattern match (//), substitution (s///), and

								transliteration (tr///) operators work on scalar values.  If you apply

								one of them to an array or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to

								a scalar value -- the length of an array, or the population info of a

								hash -- and then work on that scalar value.  This is probably not what

								you meant to do.  See L<perlfunc/grep> and L<perlfunc/map> for

								alternatives.


								=item Args must match #! line


								(F) The setuid emulator requires that the arguments Perl was invoked

								with match the arguments specified on the #! line.  Since some systems

								impose a one-argument limit on the #! line, try combining switches;

								for example, turn C<-w -U> into C<-wU>.


								=item Arg too short for msgsnd


								(F) msgsnd() requires a string at least as long as sizeof(long).


								=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element


								(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element, such as:


								    $foo{$bar}

								    $ref->{"susie"}[12]


								=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice


								(F) The argument to delete() must be either a hash or array element,

								such as:


								    $foo{$bar}

								    $ref->{"susie"}[12]


								or a hash or array slice, such as:


								    @foo[$bar, $baz, $xyzzy]

								    @{$ref->[12]}{"susie", "queue"}


								=item %s argument is not a subroutine name


								(F) The argument to exists() for C<exists &sub> must be a subroutine

								name, and not a subroutine call.  C<exists &sub()> will generate this

								error.


								=item Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s


								(W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator

								that expected a numeric value instead.  If you're fortunate the message

								will identify which operator was so unfortunate.


								=item Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s()


								(D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the @ on array names in some

								spots.  This is now heavily deprecated.


								=item assertion botched: %s


								(P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure.


								=item Assertion failed: file "%s"


								(P) A general assertion failed.  The file in question must be examined.


								=item Assignment to both a list and a scalar


								(F) If you assign to a conditional operator, the 2nd and 3rd arguments

								must either both be scalars or both be lists.  Otherwise Perl won't

								know which context to supply to the right side.


								=item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context


								(F) When vec is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be

								greater than or equal to zero.


								=item Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%lx


								(P internal) All SV objects are supposed to be allocated from arenas

								that will be garbage collected on exit.  An SV was discovered to be

								outside any of those arenas.


								=item Attempt to free nonexistent shared string


								(P internal) Perl maintains a reference counted internal table of

								strings to optimize the storage and access of hash keys and other

								strings.  This indicates someone tried to decrement the reference count

								of a string that can no longer be found in the table.


								=item Attempt to free temp prematurely


								(W debugging) Mortalized values are supposed to be freed by the

								free_tmps() routine.  This indicates that something else is freeing the

								SV before the free_tmps() routine gets a chance, which means that the

								free_tmps() routine will be freeing an unreferenced scalar when it does

								try to free it.


								=item Attempt to free unreferenced glob pointers


								(P internal) The reference counts got screwed up on symbol aliases.


								=item Attempt to free unreferenced scalar


								(W internal) Perl went to decrement the reference count of a scalar to

								see if it would go to 0, and discovered that it had already gone to 0

								earlier, and should have been freed, and in fact, probably was freed.

								This could indicate that SvREFCNT_dec() was called too many times, or

								that SvREFCNT_inc() was called too few times, or that the SV was

								mortalized when it shouldn't have been, or that memory has been

								corrupted.


								=item Attempt to join self


								(F) You tried to join a thread from within itself, which is an

								impossible task.  You may be joining the wrong thread, or you may need

								to move the join() to some other thread.


								=item Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value


								(W pack) You tried to pass a temporary value (like the result of a

								function, or a computed expression) to the "p" pack() template.  This

								means the result contains a pointer to a location that could become

								invalid anytime, even before the end of the current statement.  Use

								literals or global values as arguments to the "p" pack() template to

								avoid this warning.


								=item Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr


								(W substr) You supplied a reference as the first argument to substr()

								used as an lvalue, which is pretty strange.  Perhaps you forgot to

								dereference it first.  See L<perlfunc/substr>.


								=item Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should be %d


								(F) You passed a buffer of the wrong size to one of msgctl(), semctl()

								or shmctl().  In C parlance, the correct sizes are, respectively,

								S<sizeof(struct msqid_ds *)>, S<sizeof(struct semid_ds *)>, and

								S<sizeof(struct shmid_ds *)>.


								=item Bad evalled substitution pattern


								(F) You've used the /e switch to evaluate the replacement for a

								substitution, but perl found a syntax error in the code to evaluate,

								most likely an unexpected right brace '}'.


								=item Bad filehandle: %s


								(F) A symbol was passed to something wanting a filehandle, but the

								symbol has no filehandle associated with it.  Perhaps you didn't do an

								open(), or did it in another package.


								=item Bad free() ignored


								(S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had never

								been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by

								setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 0.


								This message can be seen quite often with DB_File on systems with "hard"

								dynamic linking, like C<AIX> and C<OS/2>. It is a bug of C<Berkeley DB>

								which is left unnoticed if C<DB> uses I<forgiving> system malloc().


								=item Bad hash


								(P) One of the internal hash routines was passed a null HV pointer.


								=item Bad index while coercing array into hash


								(F) The index looked up in the hash found as the 0'th element of a

								pseudo-hash is not legal.  Index values must be at 1 or greater.

								See L<perlref>.


								=item Badly placed ()'s


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead

								of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into

								Perl yourself.


								=item Bad name after %s::


								(F) You started to name a symbol by using a package prefix, and then

								didn't finish the symbol.  In particular, you can't interpolate outside

								of quotes, so


								    $var = 'myvar';

								    $sym = mypack::$var;


								is not the same as


								    $var = 'myvar';

								    $sym = "mypack::$var";


								=item Bad realloc() ignored


								(S malloc) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had

								never been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled

								by setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 1.


								=item Bad symbol for array


								(P) An internal request asked to add an array entry to something that

								wasn't a symbol table entry.


								=item Bad symbol for filehandle


								(P) An internal request asked to add a filehandle entry to something

								that wasn't a symbol table entry.


								=item Bad symbol for hash


								(P) An internal request asked to add a hash entry to something that

								wasn't a symbol table entry.


								=item Bareword found in conditional


								(W bareword) The compiler found a bareword where it expected a

								conditional, which often indicates that an || or && was parsed as part

								of the last argument of the previous construct, for example:


								    open FOO || die;


								It may also indicate a misspelled constant that has been interpreted as

								a bareword:


								    use constant TYPO => 1;

								    if (TYOP) { print "foo" }


								The C<strict> pragma is useful in avoiding such errors.


								=item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use


								(F) With "strict subs" in use, a bareword is only allowed as a

								subroutine identifier, in curly brackets or to the left of the "=>"

								symbol.  Perhaps you need to predeclare a subroutine?


								=item Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package


								(W bareword) You used a qualified bareword of the form C<Foo::>, but the

								compiler saw no other uses of that namespace before that point.  Perhaps

								you need to predeclare a package?


								=item BEGIN failed--compilation aborted


								(F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a BEGIN

								subroutine.  Compilation stops immediately and the interpreter is

								exited.


								=item BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted


								(F) Perl found a C<BEGIN {}> subroutine (or a C<use> directive, which

								implies a C<BEGIN {}>) after one or more compilation errors had already

								occurred.  Since the intended environment for the C<BEGIN {}> could not

								be guaranteed (due to the errors), and since subsequent code likely

								depends on its correct operation, Perl just gave up.


								=item \1 better written as $1


								(W syntax) Outside of patterns, backreferences live on as variables.

								The use of backslashes is grandfathered on the right-hand side of a

								substitution, but stylistically it's better to use the variable form

								because other Perl programmers will expect it, and it works better if

								there are more than 9 backreferences.


								=item Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable


								(W portable) The binary number you specified is larger than 2**32-1

								(4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems.  See

								L<perlport> for more on portability concerns.


								=item bind() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to do a bind on a closed socket.  Did you forget to

								check the return value of your socket() call?  See L<perlfunc/bind>.


								=item Bit vector size > 32 non-portable


								(W portable) Using bit vector sizes larger than 32 is non-portable.


								=item Bizarre copy of %s in %s


								(P) Perl detected an attempt to copy an internal value that is not

								copyable.


								=item B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script


								(F) The script would have to be opened by the C preprocessor by name,

								which provides a race condition that breaks security.


								=item Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s


								(W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS.  While Perl was preparing to

								iterate over %ENV, it encountered a logical name or symbol definition

								which was too long, so it was truncated to the string shown.


								=item Callback called exit


								(F) A subroutine invoked from an external package via call_sv()

								exited by calling exit.


								=item %s() called too early to check prototype


								(W prototype) You've called a function that has a prototype before the

								parser saw a definition or declaration for it, and Perl could not check

								that the call conforms to the prototype.  You need to either add an

								early prototype declaration for the subroutine in question, or move the

								subroutine definition ahead of the call to get proper prototype

								checking.  Alternatively, if you are certain that you're calling the

								function correctly, you may put an ampersand before the name to avoid

								the warning.  See L<perlsub>.


								=item / cannot take a count


								(F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string, but

								you have also specified an explicit size for the string.  See

								L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item Can't bless non-reference value


								(F) Only hard references may be blessed.  This is how Perl "enforces"

								encapsulation of objects.  See L<perlobj>.


								=item Can't call method "%s" in empty package "%s"


								(F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a package

								functioning as a class, but that package doesn't have ANYTHING defined

								in it, let alone methods.  See L<perlobj>.


								=item Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value


								(F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the

								object reference or package name contains an undefined value.  Something

								like this will reproduce the error:


								    $BADREF = undef;

								    process $BADREF 1,2,3;

								    $BADREF->process(1,2,3);


								=item Can't call method "%s" on unblessed reference


								(F) A method call must know in what package it's supposed to run.  It

								ordinarily finds this out from the object reference you supply, but you

								didn't supply an object reference in this case.  A reference isn't an

								object reference until it has been blessed.  See L<perlobj>.


								=item Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference


								(F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the

								object reference or package name contains an expression that returns a

								defined value which is neither an object reference nor a package name.

								Something like this will reproduce the error:


								    $BADREF = 42;

								    process $BADREF 1,2,3;

								    $BADREF->process(1,2,3);


								=item Can't chdir to %s


								(F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but C</foo/bar> is not a directory

								that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist.


								=item Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid


								(P) For some reason you can't check the filesystem of the script for

								nosuid.


								=item Can't coerce array into hash


								(F) You used an array where a hash was expected, but the array has no

								information on how to map from keys to array indices.  You can do that

								only with arrays that have a hash reference at index 0.


								=item Can't coerce %s to integer in %s


								(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries

								(typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are.  So you can't

								say things like:


								    *foo += 1;


								You CAN say


								    $foo = *foo;

								    $foo += 1;


								but then $foo no longer contains a glob.


								=item Can't coerce %s to number in %s


								(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries

								(typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are.


								=item Can't coerce %s to string in %s


								(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries

								(typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are.


								=item Can't create pipe mailbox


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  The process is suffering from exhausted

								quotas or other plumbing problems.


								=item Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s"


								(S) Currently, only scalar variables can declared with a specific class

								qualifier in a "my" or "our" declaration.  The semantics may be extended

								for other types of variables in future.


								=item Can't declare %s in "%s"


								(F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as "my" or

								"our" variables.  They must have ordinary identifiers as names.


								=item Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file


								(S inplace) You tried to use the B<-i> switch on a special file, such as

								a file in /dev, or a FIFO.  The file was ignored.


								=item Can't do inplace edit on %s: %s


								(S inplace) The creation of the new file failed for the indicated

								reason.


								=item Can't do inplace edit without backup


								(F) You're on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if you try

								reading from a deleted (but still opened) file.  You have to say

								C<-i.bak>, or some such.


								=item Can't do inplace edit: %s would not be unique


								(S inplace) Your filesystem does not support filenames longer than 14

								characters and Perl was unable to create a unique filename during

								inplace editing with the B<-i> switch.  The file was ignored.


								=item Can't do {n,m} with n > m before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) Minima must be less than or equal to maxima. If you really want your

								regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}. The << HERE shows in the

								regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.


								=item Can't do setegid!


								(P) The setegid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of

								suidperl.


								=item Can't do seteuid!


								(P) The setuid emulator of suidperl failed for some reason.


								=item Can't do setuid


								(F) This typically means that ordinary perl tried to exec suidperl to do

								setuid emulation, but couldn't exec it.  It looks for a name of the form

								sperl5.000 in the same directory that the perl executable resides under

								the name perl5.000, typically /usr/local/bin on Unix machines.  If the

								file is there, check the execute permissions.  If it isn't, ask your

								sysadmin why he and/or she removed it.


								=item Can't do waitpid with flags


								(F) This machine doesn't have either waitpid() or wait4(), so only

								waitpid() without flags is emulated.


								=item Can't emulate -%s on #! line


								(F) The #! line specifies a switch that doesn't make sense at this

								point.  For example, it'd be kind of silly to put a B<-x> on the #!

								line.


								=item Can't exec "%s": %s


								(W exec) An system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the

								named program for the indicated reason.  Typical reasons include: the

								permissions were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in

								C<$ENV{PATH}>, the executable in question was compiled for another

								architecture, or the #! line in a script points to an interpreter that

								can't be run for similar reasons.  (Or maybe your system doesn't support

								#! at all.)


								=item Can't exec %s


								(F) Perl was trying to execute the indicated program for you because

								that's what the #! line said.  If that's not what you wanted, you may

								need to mention "perl" on the #! line somewhere.


								=item Can't execute %s


								(F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the copies of the script to execute

								found in the PATH did not have correct permissions.


								=item Can't find an opnumber for "%s"


								(F) A string of a form C<CORE::word> was given to prototype(), but there

								is no builtin with the name C<word>.


								=item Can't find label %s


								(F) You said to goto a label that isn't mentioned anywhere that it's

								possible for us to go to.  See L<perlfunc/goto>.


								=item Can't find %s on PATH


								(F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the script to execute could not be

								found in the PATH.


								=item Can't find %s on PATH, '.' not in PATH


								(F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the script to execute could not be

								found in the PATH, or at least not with the correct permissions.  The

								script exists in the current directory, but PATH prohibits running it.


								=item Can't find string terminator %s anywhere before EOF


								(F) Perl strings can stretch over multiple lines.  This message means

								that the closing delimiter was omitted.  Because bracketed quotes count

								nesting levels, the following is missing its final parenthesis:


								    print q(The character '(' starts a side comment.);


								If you're getting this error from a here-document, you may have included

								unseen whitespace before or after your closing tag. A good programmer's

								editor will have a way to help you find these characters.


								=item Can't find %s property definition %s


								(F) You may have tried to use C<\p> which means a Unicode property for

								example \p{Lu} is all uppercase letters.  Escape the C<\p>, either

								C<\\p> (just the C<\p>) or by C<\Q\p> (the rest of the string, until

								possible C<\E>).


								=item Can't fork


								(F) A fatal error occurred while trying to fork while opening a

								pipeline.


								=item Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer?


								(S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  This arises because of the difference

								between access checks under VMS and under the Unix model Perl assumes.

								Under VMS, access checks are done by filename, rather than by bits in

								the stat buffer, so that ACLs and other protections can be taken into

								account.  Unfortunately, Perl assumes that the stat buffer contains all

								the necessary information, and passes it, instead of the filespec, to

								the access checking routine.  It will try to retrieve the filespec using

								the device name and FID present in the stat buffer, but this works only

								if you haven't made a subsequent call to the CRTL stat() routine,

								because the device name is overwritten with each call.  If this warning

								appears, the name lookup failed, and the access checking routine gave up

								and returned FALSE, just to be conservative.  (Note: The access checking

								routine knows about the Perl C<stat> operator and file tests, so you

								shouldn't ever see this warning in response to a Perl command; it arises

								only if some internal code takes stat buffers lightly.)


								=item Can't get pipe mailbox device name


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  After creating a mailbox to act as a

								pipe, Perl can't retrieve its name for later use.


								=item Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl asked $GETSYI how big you want your

								mailbox buffers to be, and didn't get an answer.


								=item Can't "goto" into the middle of a foreach loop


								(F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump into the middle of a foreach

								loop.  You can't get there from here.  See L<perlfunc/goto>.


								=item Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block


								(F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump out of what might look like

								a block, except that it isn't a proper block.  This usually occurs if

								you tried to jump out of a sort() block or subroutine, which is a no-no.

								See L<perlfunc/goto>.


								=item Can't goto subroutine from an eval-string


								(F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval

								"string".  (You can use it to jump out of an eval {BLOCK}, but you

								probably don't want to.)


								=item Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine


								(F) The deeply magical "goto subroutine" call can only replace one

								subroutine call for another.  It can't manufacture one out of whole

								cloth.  In general you should be calling it out of only an AUTOLOAD

								routine anyway.  See L<perlfunc/goto>.


								=item Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default


								(W signal) Perl has detected that it is being run with the SIGCHLD

								signal (sometimes known as SIGCLD) disabled.  Since disabling this

								signal will interfere with proper determination of exit status of child

								processes, Perl has reset the signal to its default value.  This

								situation typically indicates that the parent program under which Perl

								may be running (e.g. cron) is being very careless.


								=item Can't "last" outside a loop block


								(F) A "last" statement was executed to break out of the current block,

								except that there's this itty bitty problem called there isn't a current

								block.  Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't count as a "loopish"

								block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or grep().  You can

								usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the

								inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once.  See

								L<perlfunc/last>.


								=item Can't localize lexical variable %s


								(F) You used local on a variable name that was previously declared as a

								lexical variable using "my".  This is not allowed.  If you want to

								localize a package variable of the same name, qualify it with the

								package name.


								=item Can't localize pseudo-hash element


								(F) You said something like C<< local $ar->{'key'} >>, where $ar is a

								reference to a pseudo-hash.  That hasn't been implemented yet, but you

								can get a similar effect by localizing the corresponding array element

								directly -- C<< local $ar->[$ar->[0]{'key'}] >>.


								=item Can't localize through a reference


								(F) You said something like C<local $$ref>, which Perl can't currently

								handle, because when it goes to restore the old value of whatever $ref

								pointed to after the scope of the local() is finished, it can't be sure

								that $ref will still be a reference.


								=item Can't locate %s


								(F) You said to C<do> (or C<require>, or C<use>) a file that couldn't be

								found. Perl looks for the file in all the locations mentioned in @INC,

								unless the file name included the full path to the file.  Perhaps you

								need to set the PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where

								the extra library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name

								to @INC.  Or maybe you just misspelled the name of the file.  See

								L<perlfunc/require> and L<lib>.


								=item Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC


								(F) A function (or method) was called in a package which allows

								autoload, but there is no function to autoload.  Most probable causes

								are a misprint in a function/method name or a failure to C<AutoSplit>

								the file, say, by doing C<make install>.


								=item Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s"


								(F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a package

								functioning as a class, but that package doesn't define that particular

								method, nor does any of its base classes.  See L<perlobj>.


								=item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?)


								(F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message

								"Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"".  It often means

								that a method requires a package that has not been loaded.


								=item Can't locate package %s for @%s::ISA


								(W syntax) The @ISA array contained the name of another package that

								doesn't seem to exist.


								=item Can't make list assignment to \%ENV on this system


								(F) List assignment to %ENV is not supported on some systems, notably

								VMS.


								=item Can't modify %s in %s


								(F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item indicated, or otherwise try

								to change it, such as with an auto-increment.


								=item Can't modify nonexistent substring


								(P) The internal routine that does assignment to a substr() was handed

								a NULL.


								=item Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call


								(F) Subroutines meant to be used in lvalue context should be declared as

								such, see L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">.


								=item Can't msgrcv to read-only var


								(F) The target of a msgrcv must be modifiable to be used as a receive

								buffer.


								=item Can't "next" outside a loop block


								(F) A "next" statement was executed to reiterate the current block, but

								there isn't a current block.  Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't

								count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or

								grep().  You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect

								though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops

								once.  See L<perlfunc/next>.


								=item Can't open %s: %s


								(S inplace) The implicit opening of a file through use of the C<< <> >>

								filehandle, either implicitly under the C<-n> or C<-p> command-line

								switches, or explicitly, failed for the indicated reason.  Usually this

								is because you don't have read permission for a file which you named on

								the command line.


								=item Can't open bidirectional pipe


								(W pipe) You tried to say C<open(CMD, "|cmd|")>, which is not supported.

								You can try any of several modules in the Perl library to do this, such

								as IPC::Open2.  Alternately, direct the pipe's output to a file using

								">", and then read it in under a different file handle.


								=item Can't open error file %s as stderr


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl does its own command line

								redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '2>' or '2>>' on

								the command line for writing.


								=item Can't open input file %s as stdin


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl does its own command line

								redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '<' on the

								command line for reading.


								=item Can't open output file %s as stdout


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl does its own command line

								redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '>' or '>>' on

								the command line for writing.


								=item Can't open output pipe (name: %s)


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl does its own command line

								redirection, and couldn't open the pipe into which to send data destined

								for stdout.


								=item Can't open perl script "%s": %s


								(F) The script you specified can't be opened for the indicated reason.


								=item Can't read CRTL environ


								(S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl tried to read an element of %ENV

								from the CRTL's internal environment array and discovered the array was

								missing.  You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ

								or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not

								searched.


								=item Can't redefine active sort subroutine %s


								(F) Perl optimizes the internal handling of sort subroutines and keeps

								pointers into them.  You tried to redefine one such sort subroutine when

								it was currently active, which is not allowed.  If you really want to do

								this, you should write C<sort { &func } @x> instead of C<sort func @x>.


								=item Can't "redo" outside a loop block


								(F) A "redo" statement was executed to restart the current block, but

								there isn't a current block.  Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't

								count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map()

								or grep().  You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect

								though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that

								loops once.  See L<perlfunc/redo>.


								=item Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file


								(S inplace) You requested an inplace edit without creating a backup

								file.  Perl was unable to remove the original file to replace it with

								the modified file.  The file was left unmodified.


								=item Can't rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file


								(S inplace) The rename done by the B<-i> switch failed for some reason,

								probably because you don't have write permission to the directory.


								=item Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in binary mode


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl thought stdin was a pipe, and tried

								to reopen it to accept binary data.  Alas, it failed.


								=item Can't resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'


								(F|P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as opposed

								to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the package. If

								method name is C<???>, this is an internal error.


								=item Can't reswap uid and euid


								(P) The setreuid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of

								suidperl.


								=item Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine


								(F) Perl detected an attempt to return illegal lvalues (such as

								temporary or readonly values) from a subroutine used as an lvalue.  This

								is not allowed.


								=item Can't return %s to lvalue scalar context


								(F) You tried to return a complete array or hash from an lvalue subroutine,

								but you called the subroutine in a way that made Perl think you meant

								to return only one value. You probably meant to write parentheses around

								the call to the subroutine, which tell Perl that the call should be in

								list context.


								=item Can't return outside a subroutine


								(F) The return statement was executed in mainline code, that is, where

								there was no subroutine call to return out of.  See L<perlsub>.


								=item Can't stat script "%s"


								(P) For some reason you can't fstat() the script even though you have it

								open already.  Bizarre.


								=item Can't swap uid and euid


								(P) The setreuid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of

								suidperl.


								=item Can't take log of %g


								(F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the logarithm of a

								negative number or zero. There's a Math::Complex package that comes

								standard with Perl, though, if you really want to do that for the

								negative numbers.


								=item Can't take sqrt of %g


								(F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the square root of a

								negative number.  There's a Math::Complex package that comes standard

								with Perl, though, if you really want to do that.


								=item Can't undef active subroutine


								(F) You can't undefine a routine that's currently running.  You can,

								however, redefine it while it's running, and you can even undef the

								redefined subroutine while the old routine is running.  Go figure.


								=item Can't unshift


								(F) You tried to unshift an "unreal" array that can't be unshifted, such

								as the main Perl stack.


								=item Can't upgrade that kind of scalar


								(P) The internal sv_upgrade routine adds "members" to an SV, making it

								into a more specialized kind of SV.  The top several SV types are so

								specialized, however, that they cannot be interconverted.  This message

								indicates that such a conversion was attempted.


								=item Can't upgrade to undef


								(P) The undefined SV is the bottom of the totem pole, in the scheme of

								upgradability.  Upgrading to undef indicates an error in the code

								calling sv_upgrade.


								=item Can't use an undefined value as %s reference


								(F) A value used as either a hard reference or a symbolic reference must

								be a defined value.  This helps to delurk some insidious errors.


								=item Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use


								(F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs".  Symbolic

								references are disallowed.  See L<perlref>.


								=item Can't use %! because Errno.pm is not available


								(F) The first time the %! hash is used, perl automatically loads the

								Errno.pm module. The Errno module is expected to tie the %! hash to

								provide symbolic names for C<$!> errno values.


								=item Can't use %s for loop variable


								(F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a loop variable on a

								foreach.


								=item Can't use global %s in "my"


								(F) You tried to declare a magical variable as a lexical variable.  This

								is not allowed, because the magic can be tied to only one location

								(namely the global variable) and it would be incredibly confusing to

								have variables in your program that looked like magical variables but

								weren't.


								=item Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison


								(F) The global variables $a and $b are reserved for sort comparisons.

								You mentioned $a or $b in the same line as the <=> or cmp operator,

								and the variable had earlier been declared as a lexical variable.

								Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename the

								lexical variable.


								=item Can't use %s ref as %s ref


								(F) You've mixed up your reference types.  You have to dereference a

								reference of the type needed.  You can use the ref() function to

								test the type of the reference, if need be.


								=item Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use


								(F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs".  Symbolic

								references are disallowed.  See L<perlref>.


								=item Can't use subscript on %s


								(F) The compiler tried to interpret a bracketed expression as a

								subscript.  But to the left of the brackets was an expression that

								didn't look like an array reference, or anything else subscriptable.


								=item Can't use \%c to mean $%c in expression


								(W syntax) In an ordinary expression, backslash is a unary operator that

								creates a reference to its argument.  The use of backslash to indicate a

								backreference to a matched substring is valid only as part of a regular

								expression pattern.  Trying to do this in ordinary Perl code produces a

								value that prints out looking like SCALAR(0xdecaf).  Use the $1 form

								instead.


								=item Can't weaken a nonreference


								(F) You attempted to weaken something that was not a reference.  Only

								references can be weakened.


								=item Can't x= to read-only value


								(F) You tried to repeat a constant value (often the undefined value)

								with an assignment operator, which implies modifying the value itself.

								Perhaps you need to copy the value to a temporary, and repeat that.


								=item chmod() mode argument is missing initial 0


								(W chmod) A novice will sometimes say


								    chmod 777, $filename


								not realizing that 777 will be interpreted as a decimal number,

								equivalent to 01411.  Octal constants are introduced with a leading 0 in

								Perl, as in C.


								=item close() on unopened filehandle %s


								(W unopened) You tried to close a filehandle that was never opened.


								=item %s: Command not found


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl.

								Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself.


								=item Compilation failed in require


								(F) Perl could not compile a file specified in a C<require> statement.

								Perl uses this generic message when none of the errors that it

								encountered were severe enough to halt compilation immediately.


								=item Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d) exceeded


								(W regexp) The regular expression engine uses recursion in complex

								situations where back-tracking is required.  Recursion depth is limited

								to 32766, or perhaps less in architectures where the stack cannot grow

								arbitrarily.  ("Simple" and "medium" situations are handled without

								recursion and are not subject to a limit.)  Try shortening the string

								under examination; looping in Perl code (e.g. with C<while>) rather than

								in the regular expression engine; or rewriting the regular expression so

								that it is simpler or backtracks less.  (See L<perlfaq2> for information

								on I<Mastering Regular Expressions>.)


								=item connect() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to do a connect on a closed socket.  Did you forget

								to check the return value of your socket() call?  See

								L<perlfunc/connect>.


								=item Constant(%s)%s: %s


								(F) The parser found inconsistencies either while attempting to define

								an overloaded constant, or when trying to find the character name

								specified in the C<\N{...}> escape.  Perhaps you forgot to load the

								corresponding C<overload> or C<charnames> pragma?  See L<charnames> and

								L<overload>.


								=item Constant is not %s reference


								(F) A constant value (perhaps declared using the C<use constant> pragma)

								is being dereferenced, but it amounts to the wrong type of reference.

								The message indicates the type of reference that was expected. This

								usually indicates a syntax error in dereferencing the constant value.

								See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> and L<constant>.


								=item Constant subroutine %s redefined


								(S|W redefine) You redefined a subroutine which had previously been

								eligible for inlining.  See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for

								commentary and workarounds.


								=item Constant subroutine %s undefined


								(W misc) You undefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible

								for inlining.  See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and

								workarounds.


								=item Copy method did not return a reference


								(F) The method which overloads "=" is buggy. See

								L<overload/Copy Constructor>.


								=item CORE::%s is not a keyword


								(F) The CORE:: namespace is reserved for Perl keywords.


								=item corrupted regexp pointers


								(P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular

								expression compiler gave it.


								=item corrupted regexp program


								(P) The regular expression engine got passed a regexp program without a

								valid magic number.


								=item Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%lx at 0x%lx


								(P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure.


								=item C<-p> destination: %s


								(F) An error occurred during the implicit output invoked by the C<-p>

								command-line switch.  (This output goes to STDOUT unless you've

								redirected it with select().)


								=item C<-T> and C<-B> not implemented on filehandles


								(F) Perl can't peek at the stdio buffer of filehandles when it doesn't

								know about your kind of stdio.  You'll have to use a filename instead.


								=item Deep recursion on subroutine "%s"


								(W recursion) This subroutine has called itself (directly or indirectly)

								100 times more than it has returned.  This probably indicates an

								infinite recursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in

								which case it indicates something else.


								=item defined(@array) is deprecated


								(D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on arrays because it

								checks for an undefined I<scalar> value.  If you want to see if the

								array is empty, just use C<if (@array) { # not empty }> for example.


								=item defined(%hash) is deprecated


								(D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on hashes because it

								checks for an undefined I<scalar> value.  If you want to see if the hash

								is empty, just use C<if (%hash) { # not empty }> for example.


								=item Delimiter for here document is too long


								(F) In a here document construct like C<<<FOO>, the label C<FOO> is too

								long for Perl to handle.  You have to be seriously twisted to write code

								that triggers this error.


								=item Did not produce a valid header


								See Server error.


								=item %s did not return a true value


								(F) A required (or used) file must return a true value to indicate that

								it compiled correctly and ran its initialization code correctly.  It's

								traditional to end such a file with a "1;", though any true value would

								do.  See L<perlfunc/require>.


								=item (Did you mean &%s instead?)


								(W) You probably referred to an imported subroutine &FOO as $FOO or some

								such.


								=item (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?)


								(W misc) Remember that "our" does not localize the declared global

								variable.  You have declared it again in the same lexical scope, which

								seems superfluous.


								=item (Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?)


								(W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant $hash{$key} or

								@hash{@keys}.  On the other hand, maybe you just meant %hash and got

								carried away.


								=item Died


								(F) You passed die() an empty string (the equivalent of C<die "">) or

								you called it with no args and both C<$@> and C<$_> were empty.


								=item Document contains no data


								See Server error.


								=item Don't know how to handle magic of type '%s'


								(P) The internal handling of magical variables has been cursed.


								=item do_study: out of memory


								(P) This should have been caught by safemalloc() instead.


								=item (Do you need to predeclare %s?)


								(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s

								found where operator expected".  It often means a subroutine or module

								name is being referenced that hasn't been declared yet.  This may be

								because of ordering problems in your file, or because of a missing

								"sub", "package", "require", or "use" statement.  If you're referencing

								something that isn't defined yet, you don't actually have to define the

								subroutine or package before the current location.  You can use an empty

								"sub foo;" or "package FOO;" to enter a "forward" declaration.


								=item Duplicate free() ignored


								(S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had

								already been freed.


								=item elseif should be elsif


								(S) There is no keyword "elseif" in Perl because Larry thinks it's ugly.

								Your code will be interpreted as an attempt to call a method named

								"elseif" for the class returned by the following block.  This is

								unlikely to be what you want.


								=item entering effective %s failed


								(F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and

								effective uids or gids failed.


								=item Error converting file specification %s


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Because Perl may have to deal with file

								specifications in either VMS or Unix syntax, it converts them to a

								single form when it must operate on them directly.  Either you've passed

								an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the

								conversion routines don't handle.  Drat.


								=item %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression


								(F) Perl detected tainted data when trying to compile a regular

								expression that contains the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion, which

								is unsafe.  See L<perlre/(?{ code })>, and L<perlsec>.


								=item %s: Eval-group not allowed at run time


								(F) Perl tried to compile a regular expression containing the

								C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion at run time, as it would when the

								pattern contains interpolated values.  Since that is a security risk, it

								is not allowed.  If you insist, you may still do this by explicitly

								building the pattern from an interpolated string at run time and using

								that in an eval().  See L<perlre/(?{ code })>.


								=item %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval'


								(F) A regular expression contained the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width

								assertion, but that construct is only allowed when the C<use re 'eval'>

								pragma is in effect.  See L<perlre/(?{ code })>.


								=item Excessively long <> operator


								(F) The contents of a <> operator may not exceed the maximum size of a

								Perl identifier.  If you're just trying to glob a long list of

								filenames, try using the glob() operator, or put the filenames into a

								variable and glob that.


								=item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors


								(F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails.


								=item Exiting eval via %s


								(W exiting) You are exiting an eval by unconventional means, such as a

								goto, or a loop control statement.


								=item Exiting format via %s


								(W exiting) You are exiting an eval by unconventional means, such as a

								goto, or a loop control statement.


								=item Exiting pseudo-block via %s


								(W exiting) You are exiting a rather special block construct (like a

								sort block or subroutine) by unconventional means, such as a goto, or a

								loop control statement.  See L<perlfunc/sort>.


								=item Exiting subroutine via %s


								(W exiting) You are exiting a subroutine by unconventional means, such

								as a goto, or a loop control statement.


								=item Exiting substitution via %s


								(W exiting) You are exiting a substitution by unconventional means, such

								as a return, a goto, or a loop control statement.


								=item Explicit blessing to '' (assuming package main)


								(W misc) You are blessing a reference to a zero length string.  This has

								the effect of blessing the reference into the package main.  This is

								usually not what you want.  Consider providing a default target package,

								e.g. bless($ref, $p || 'MyPackage');


								=item %s: Expression syntax


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl.

								Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself.


								=item %s failed--call queue aborted


								(F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a CHECK, INIT, or

								END subroutine.  Processing of the remainder of the queue of such

								routines has been prematurely ended.


								=item false [] range "%s" in regexp


								(W regexp) A character class range must start and end at a literal

								character, not another character class like C<\d> or C<[:alpha:]>.  The

								"-" in your false range is interpreted as a literal "-".  Consider

								quoting the "-",  "\-".  See L<perlre>.


								=item Fatal VMS error at %s, line %d


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  Something untoward happened in a VMS

								system service or RTL routine; Perl's exit status should provide more

								details.  The filename in "at %s" and the line number in "line %d" tell

								you which section of the Perl source code is distressed.


								=item fcntl is not implemented


								(F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement fcntl().  What is this, a

								PDP-11 or something?


								=item Filehandle %s opened only for input


								(W io) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle.  If you intended it

								to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with "+<" or "+>"

								or "+>>" instead of with "<" or nothing.  If you intended only to write

								the file, use ">" or ">>".  See L<perlfunc/open>.


								=item Filehandle %s opened only for output


								(W io) You tried to read from a filehandle opened only for writing.  If

								you intended it to be a read/write filehandle, you needed to open it

								with "+<" or "+>" or "+>>" instead of with "<" or nothing.  If you

								intended only to read from the file, use "<".  See L<perlfunc/open>.


								=item Final $ should be \$ or $name


								(F) You must now decide whether the final $ in a string was meant to be

								a literal dollar sign, or was meant to introduce a variable name that

								happens to be missing.  So you have to put either the backslash or the

								name.


								=item Final @ should be \@ or @name


								(F) You must now decide whether the final @ in a string was meant to be

								a literal "at" sign, or was meant to introduce a variable name that

								happens to be missing.  So you have to put either the backslash or the

								name.


								=item flock() on closed filehandle %s


								(W closed) The filehandle you're attempting to flock() got itself closed

								some time before now.  Check your logic flow.  flock() operates on

								filehandles.  Are you attempting to call flock() on a dirhandle by the

								same name?


								=item Quantifier follows nothing before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) You started a regular expression with a quantifier. Backslash it if you

								meant it literally. The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where the

								problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.


								=item Format not terminated


								(F) A format must be terminated by a line with a solitary dot.  Perl got

								to the end of your file without finding such a line.


								=item Format %s redefined


								(W redefine) You redefined a format.  To suppress this warning, say


								    {

									no warnings;

									eval "format NAME =...";

								    }


								=item Found = in conditional, should be ==


								(W syntax) You said


								    if ($foo = 123)


								when you meant


								    if ($foo == 123)


								(or something like that).


								=item %s found where operator expected


								(S) The Perl lexer knows whether to expect a term or an operator.  If it

								sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecting to see an

								operator, it gives you this warning.  Usually it indicates that an

								operator or delimiter was omitted, such as a semicolon.


								=item gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s"


								(S) A warning from the GDBM_File extension that a store failed.


								=item gethostent not implemented


								(F) Your C library apparently doesn't implement gethostent(), probably

								because if it did, it'd feel morally obligated to return every hostname

								on the Internet.


								=item get%sname() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to get a socket or peer socket name on a closed

								socket.  Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call?


								=item getpwnam returned invalid UIC %#o for user "%s"


								(S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  The call to C<sys$getuai> underlying the

								C<getpwnam> operator returned an invalid UIC.


								=item getsockopt() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to get a socket option on a closed socket.  Did you

								forget to check the return value of your socket() call?  See

								L<perlfunc/getsockopt>.


								=item Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name


								(F) You've said "use strict vars", which indicates that all variables

								must either be lexically scoped (using "my"), declared beforehand using

								"our", or explicitly qualified to say which package the global variable

								is in (using "::").


								=item glob failed (%s)


								(W glob) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for

								C<glob> and C<< <*.c> >>.  Usually, this means that you supplied a

								C<glob> pattern that caused the external program to fail and exit with a

								nonzero status.  If the message indicates that the abnormal exit

								resulted in a coredump, this may also mean that your csh (C shell) is

								broken.  If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables in

								config.sh:  If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it

								were csh (e.g.  C<full_csh='/usr/bin/tcsh'>); otherwise, make them all

								empty (except that C<d_csh> should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will

								think csh is missing.  In either case, after editing config.sh, run

								C<./Configure -S> and rebuild Perl.


								=item Glob not terminated


								(F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting

								a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and

								not finding it.  Chances are you left some needed parentheses out

								earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than".


								=item Got an error from DosAllocMem


								(P) An error peculiar to OS/2.  Most probably you're using an obsolete

								version of Perl, and this should not happen anyway.


								=item goto must have label


								(F) Unlike with "next" or "last", you're not allowed to goto an

								unspecified destination.  See L<perlfunc/goto>.


								=item %s had compilation errors


								(F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> fails.


								=item Had to create %s unexpectedly


								(S internal) A routine asked for a symbol from a symbol table that ought

								to have existed already, but for some reason it didn't, and had to be

								created on an emergency basis to prevent a core dump.


								=item Hash %%s missing the % in argument %d of %s()


								(D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the % on hash names in some

								spots.  This is now heavily deprecated.


								=item %s has too many errors


								(F) The parser has given up trying to parse the program after 10 errors.

								Further error messages would likely be uninformative.


								=item Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable


								(W portable) The hexadecimal number you specified is larger than 2**32-1

								(4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems.  See

								L<perlport> for more on portability concerns.


								=item Identifier too long


								(F) Perl limits identifiers (names for variables, functions, etc.) to

								about 250 characters for simple names, and somewhat more for compound

								names (like C<$A::B>).  You've exceeded Perl's limits.  Future versions

								of Perl are likely to eliminate these arbitrary limitations.


								=item Illegal binary digit %s


								(F) You used a digit other than 0 or 1 in a binary number.


								=item Illegal binary digit %s ignored


								(W digit) You may have tried to use a digit other than 0 or 1 in a

								binary number.  Interpretation of the binary number stopped before the

								offending digit.


								=item Illegal character %s (carriage return)


								(F) Perl normally treats carriage returns in the program text as it

								would any other whitespace, which means you should never see this error

								when Perl was built using standard options.  For some reason, your

								version of Perl appears to have been built without this support.  Talk

								to your Perl administrator.


								=item Illegal division by zero


								(F) You tried to divide a number by 0.  Either something was wrong in

								your logic, or you need to put a conditional in to guard against

								meaningless input.


								=item Illegal hexadecimal digit %s ignored


								(W digit) You may have tried to use a character other than 0 - 9 or

								A - F, a - f in a hexadecimal number.  Interpretation of the hexadecimal

								number stopped before the illegal character.


								=item Illegal modulus zero


								(F) You tried to divide a number by 0 to get the remainder.  Most

								numbers don't take to this kindly.


								=item Illegal number of bits in vec


								(F) The number of bits in vec() (the third argument) must be a power of

								two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports that).


								=item Illegal octal digit %s


								(F) You used an 8 or 9 in a octal number.


								=item Illegal octal digit %s ignored


								(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number.

								Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.


								=item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s


								(X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the

								following switches: B<-[DIMUdmw]>.


								=item Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s"


								(W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl tried to read the CRTL's

								internal environ array, and encountered an element without the C<=>

								delimiter used to separate keys from values.  The element is ignored.


								=item Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|


								(W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl tried to read a logical

								name or CLI symbol definition when preparing to iterate over %ENV, and

								didn't see the expected delimiter between key and value, so the line was

								ignored.


								=item (in cleanup) %s


								(W misc) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised

								the indicated exception.  Since destructors are usually called by the

								system at arbitrary points during execution, and often a vast number of

								times, the warning is issued only once for any number of failures that

								would otherwise result in the same message being repeated.


								Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C<G_KEEPERR> flag could

								also result in this warning.  See L<perlcall/G_KEEPERR>.


								=item Insecure dependency in %s


								(F) You tried to do something that the tainting mechanism didn't like.

								The tainting mechanism is turned on when you're running setuid or

								setgid, or when you specify B<-T> to turn it on explicitly.  The

								tainting mechanism labels all data that's derived directly or indirectly

								from the user, who is considered to be unworthy of your trust.  If any

								such data is used in a "dangerous" operation, you get this error.  See

								L<perlsec> for more information.


								=item Insecure directory in %s


								(F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or

								setgid script if C<$ENV{PATH}> contains a directory that is writable by

								the world.  See L<perlsec>.


								=item Insecure $ENV{%s} while running %s


								(F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or

								setgid script if any of C<$ENV{PATH}>, C<$ENV{IFS}>, C<$ENV{CDPATH}>,

								C<$ENV{ENV}> or C<$ENV{BASH_ENV}> are derived from data supplied (or

								potentially supplied) by the user.  The script must set the path to a

								known value, using trustworthy data.  See L<perlsec>.


								=item Integer overflow in %s number


								(W overflow) The hexadecimal, octal or binary number you have specified

								either as a literal or as an argument to hex() or oct() is too big for

								your architecture, and has been converted to a floating point number.

								On a 32-bit architecture the largest hexadecimal, octal or binary number

								representable without overflow is 0xFFFFFFFF, 037777777777, or

								0b11111111111111111111111111111111 respectively.  Note that Perl

								transparently promotes all numbers to a floating point representation

								internally--subject to loss of precision errors in subsequent

								operations.


								=item Internal disaster before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(P) Something went badly wrong in the regular expression parser.

								The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was

								discovered.


								=item Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks


								(S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl keeps track of the number of times

								you've called C<fork> and C<exec>, to determine whether the current call

								to C<exec> should affect the current script or a subprocess (see

								L<perlvms/"exec LIST">).  Somehow, this count has become scrambled, so

								Perl is making a guess and treating this C<exec> as a request to

								terminate the Perl script and execute the specified command.


								=item Internal urp before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(P) Something went badly awry in the regular expression parser. The <<<HERE

								shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered.


								=item %s (...) interpreted as function


								(W syntax) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator

								followed by parentheses turns into a function, with all the list

								operators arguments found inside the parentheses.  See

								L<perlop/Terms and List Operators (Leftward)>.


								=item Invalid %s attribute: %s


								The indicated attribute for a subroutine or variable was not recognized

								by Perl or by a user-supplied handler.  See L<attributes>.


								=item Invalid %s attributes: %s


								The indicated attributes for a subroutine or variable were not

								recognized by Perl or by a user-supplied handler.  See L<attributes>.


								=item Invalid conversion in %s: "%s"


								(W printf) Perl does not understand the given format conversion.  See

								L<perlfunc/sprintf>.


								=item invalid [] range "%s" in regexp


								(F) The range specified in a character class had a minimum character

								greater than the maximum character.  See L<perlre>.


								=item Invalid separator character %s in attribute list


								(F) Something other than a colon or whitespace was seen between the

								elements of an attribute list.  If the previous attribute had a

								parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that list was terminated too soon.

								See L<attributes>.


								=item Invalid type in pack: '%s'


								(F) The given character is not a valid pack type.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.

								(W pack) The given character is not a valid pack type but used to be

								silently ignored.


								=item Invalid type in unpack: '%s'


								(F) The given character is not a valid unpack type.  See

								L<perlfunc/unpack>.

								(W unpack) The given character is not a valid unpack type but used to be

								silently ignored.


								=item ioctl is not implemented


								(F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement ioctl(), which is pretty

								strange for a machine that supports C.


								=item `%s' is not a code reference


								(W) The second (fourth, sixth, ...) argument of overload::constant needs

								to be a code reference. Either an anonymous subroutine, or a reference

								to a subroutine.


								=item `%s' is not an overloadable type


								(W) You tried to overload a constant type the overload package is unaware of.


								=item junk on end of regexp


								(P) The regular expression parser is confused.


								=item Label not found for "last %s"


								(F) You named a loop to break out of, but you're not currently in a loop

								of that name, not even if you count where you were called from.  See

								L<perlfunc/last>.


								=item Label not found for "next %s"


								(F) You named a loop to continue, but you're not currently in a loop of

								that name, not even if you count where you were called from.  See

								L<perlfunc/last>.


								=item Label not found for "redo %s"


								(F) You named a loop to restart, but you're not currently in a loop of

								that name, not even if you count where you were called from.  See

								L<perlfunc/last>.


								=item leaving effective %s failed


								(F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and

								effective uids or gids failed.


								=item listen() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket.  Did you forget

								to check the return value of your socket() call?  See

								L<perlfunc/listen>.


								=item Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented at {#} mark in regex %s


								There is an upper limit to the depth of lookbehind in the (?<=

								regular expression construct.


								=item Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet


								(F) Due to limitations in the current implementation, array and hash

								values cannot be returned in subroutines used in lvalue context.  See

								L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">.


								=item Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented before << HERE %s


								(F) There is currently a limit on the length of string which lookbehind can

								handle. This restriction may be eased in a future release. The << HERE shows in

								the regular expression about where the problem was discovered.


								=item Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX


								(F) An error peculiar to OS/2.  PERLLIB_PREFIX should be of the form


								    prefix1;prefix2


								or


								    prefix1 prefix2


								with nonempty prefix1 and prefix2.  If C<prefix1> is indeed a prefix of

								a builtin library search path, prefix2 is substituted.  The error may

								appear if components are not found, or are too long.  See

								"PERLLIB_PREFIX" in L<perlos2>.


								=item Malformed UTF-8 character (%s)


								Perl detected something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding rules.


								=item Malformed UTF-16 surrogate


								Perl thought it was reading UTF-16 encoded character data but while

								doing it Perl met a malformed Unicode surrogate.


								=item %s matches null string many times


								(W regexp) The pattern you've specified would be an infinite loop if the

								regular expression engine didn't specifically check for that.  See

								L<perlre>.


								=item % may only be used in unpack


								(F) You can't pack a string by supplying a checksum, because the

								checksumming process loses information, and you can't go the other way.

								See L<perlfunc/unpack>.


								=item Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing


								(F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that

								doesn't resolve to a valid subroutine.  See L<overload>.


								=item Method %s not permitted


								See Server error.


								=item Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting on line %d


								(S) An advisory indicating that the previous error may have been caused

								by a missing delimiter on a string or pattern, because it eventually

								ended earlier on the current line.


								=item Misplaced _ in number


								(W syntax) An underline in a decimal constant wasn't on a 3-digit boundary.


								=item Missing %sbrace%s on \N{}


								(F) Wrong syntax of character name literal C<\N{charname}> within

								double-quotish context.


								=item Missing comma after first argument to %s function


								(F) While certain functions allow you to specify a filehandle or an

								"indirect object" before the argument list, this ain't one of them.


								=item Missing command in piped open


								(W pipe) You used the C<open(FH, "| command")> or

								C<open(FH, "command |")> construction, but the command was missing or

								blank.


								=item Missing name in "my sub"


								(F) The reserved syntax for lexically scoped subroutines requires that

								they have a name with which they can be found.


								=item Missing $ on loop variable


								(F) Apparently you've been programming in B<csh> too much.  Variables

								are always mentioned with the $ in Perl, unlike in the shells, where it

								can vary from one line to the next.


								=item (Missing operator before %s?)


								(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s

								found where operator expected".  Often the missing operator is a comma.


								=item Missing right curly or square bracket


								(F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than closing

								ones.  As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place you

								were last editing.


								=item (Missing semicolon on previous line?)


								(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s

								found where operator expected".  Don't automatically put a semicolon on

								the previous line just because you saw this message.


								=item Modification of a read-only value attempted


								(F) You tried, directly or indirectly, to change the value of a

								constant.  You didn't, of course, try "2 = 1", because the compiler

								catches that.  But an easy way to do the same thing is:


								    sub mod { $_[0] = 1 }

								    mod(2);


								Another way is to assign to a substr() that's off the end of the string.


								Yet another way is to assign to a C<foreach> loop I<VAR> when I<VAR>

								is aliased to a constant in the look I<LIST>:


								        $x = 1;

								        foreach my $n ($x, 2) {

								            $n *= 2; # modifies the $x, but fails on attempt to modify the 2

								        }


								=item Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, %s


								(F) You tried to make an array value spring into existence, and the

								subscript was probably negative, even counting from end of the array

								backwards.


								=item Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, %s


								(P) You tried to make a hash value spring into existence, and it

								couldn't be created for some peculiar reason.


								=item Module name must be constant


								(F) Only a bare module name is allowed as the first argument to a "use".


								=item Module name required with -%c option


								(F) The C<-M> or C<-m> options say that Perl should load some module, but

								you omitted the name of the module.  Consult L<perlrun> for full details

								about C<-M> and C<-m>.


								=item msg%s not implemented


								(F) You don't have System V message IPC on your system.


								=item Multidimensional syntax %s not supported


								(W syntax) Multidimensional arrays aren't written like C<$foo[1,2,3]>.

								They're written like C<$foo[1][2][3]>, as in C.


								=item / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*


								(F) You had a pack template indicating a counted-length string,

								Currently the only things that can have their length counted are a*, A*

								or Z*.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item / must be followed by a, A or Z


								(F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string, which

								must be followed by one of the letters a, A or Z to indicate what sort

								of string is to be unpacked.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item / must follow a numeric type


								(F) You had an unpack template that contained a '#', but this did not

								follow some numeric unpack specification.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item "my sub" not yet implemented


								(F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented.  Don't try

								that yet.


								=item "my" variable %s can't be in a package


								(F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make

								sense to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front.  Use

								local() if you want to localize a package variable.


								=item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo


								(W once) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names.

								If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention it

								again somehow to suppress the message.  The C<our> declaration is

								provided for this purpose.


								=item Negative length


								(F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with a buffer

								length that is less than 0.  This is difficult to imagine.


								=item Nested quantifiers before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) You can't quantify a quantifier without intervening parentheses. So

								things like ** or +* or ?* are illegal. The << HERE shows in the regular

								expression about where the problem was discovered.


								Note, however, that the minimal matching quantifiers, C<*?>, C<+?>, and

								C<??> appear to be nested quantifiers, but aren't.  See L<perlre>.


								=item %s never introduced


								(S internal) The symbol in question was declared but somehow went out of

								scope before it could possibly have been used.


								=item No %s allowed while running setuid


								(F) Certain operations are deemed to be too insecure for a setuid or

								setgid script to even be allowed to attempt.  Generally speaking there

								will be another way to do what you want that is, if not secure, at least

								securable.  See L<perlsec>.


								=item No B<-e> allowed in setuid scripts


								(F) A setuid script can't be specified by the user.


								=item No comma allowed after %s


								(F) A list operator that has a filehandle or "indirect object" is not

								allowed to have a comma between that and the following arguments.

								Otherwise it'd be just another one of the arguments.


								One possible cause for this is that you expected to have imported a

								constant to your name space with B<use> or B<import> while no such

								importing took place, it may for example be that your operating system

								does not support that particular constant. Hopefully you did use an

								explicit import list for the constants you expect to see, please see

								L<perlfunc/use> and L<perlfunc/import>. While an explicit import list

								would probably have caught this error earlier it naturally does not

								remedy the fact that your operating system still does not support that

								constant. Maybe you have a typo in the constants of the symbol import

								list of B<use> or B<import> or in the constant name at the line where

								this error was triggered?


								=item No command into which to pipe on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl handles its own command line

								redirection, and found a '|' at the end of the command line, so it

								doesn't know where you want to pipe the output from this command.


								=item No DB::DB routine defined


								(F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch, but

								for some reason the perl5db.pl file (or some facsimile thereof) didn't

								define a routine to be called at the beginning of each statement.  Which

								is odd, because the file should have been required automatically, and

								should have blown up the require if it didn't parse right.


								=item No dbm on this machine


								(P) This is counted as an internal error, because every machine should

								supply dbm nowadays, because Perl comes with SDBM.  See L<SDBM_File>.


								=item No DBsub routine


								(F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch,

								but for some reason the perl5db.pl file (or some facsimile thereof)

								didn't define a DB::sub routine to be called at the beginning of each

								ordinary subroutine call.


								=item No error file after 2> or 2>> on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl handles its own command line

								redirection, and found a '2>' or a '2>>' on the command line, but can't

								find the name of the file to which to write data destined for stderr.


								=item No input file after < on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl handles its own command line

								redirection, and found a '<' on the command line, but can't find the

								name of the file from which to read data for stdin.


								=item No #! line


								(F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a well-formed #! line

								even on machines that don't support the #! construct.


								=item "no" not allowed in expression


								(F) The "no" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and

								returns no useful value.  See L<perlmod>.


								=item No output file after > on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl handles its own command line

								redirection, and found a lone '>' at the end of the command line, so it

								doesn't know where you wanted to redirect stdout.


								=item No output file after > or >> on command line


								(F) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl handles its own command line

								redirection, and found a '>' or a '>>' on the command line, but can't

								find the name of the file to which to write data destined for stdout.


								=item No package name allowed for variable %s in "our"


								(F) Fully qualified variable names are not allowed in "our"

								declarations, because that doesn't make much sense under existing

								semantics.  Such syntax is reserved for future extensions.


								=item No Perl script found in input


								(F) You called C<perl -x>, but no line was found in the file beginning

								with #! and containing the word "perl".


								=item No setregid available


								(F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setregid() call for

								your system.


								=item No setreuid available


								(F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setreuid() call for

								your system.


								=item No space allowed after -%c


								(F) The argument to the indicated command line switch must follow

								immediately after the switch, without intervening spaces.


								=item No %s specified for -%c


								(F) The indicated command line switch needs a mandatory argument, but

								you haven't specified one.


								=item No such pipe open


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  The internal routine my_pclose() tried to

								close a pipe which hadn't been opened.  This should have been caught

								earlier as an attempt to close an unopened filehandle.


								=item No such pseudo-hash field "%s"


								(F) You tried to access an array as a hash, but the field name used is

								not defined.  The hash at index 0 should map all valid field names to

								array indices for that to work.


								=item No such pseudo-hash field "%s" in variable %s of type %s


								(F) You tried to access a field of a typed variable where the type does

								not know about the field name.  The field names are looked up in the

								%FIELDS hash in the type package at compile time.  The %FIELDS hash is

								%usually set up with the 'fields' pragma.


								=item No such signal: SIG%s


								(W signal) You specified a signal name as a subscript to %SIG that was

								not recognized.  Say C<kill -l> in your shell to see the valid signal

								names on your system.


								=item Not a CODE reference


								(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a

								subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead.  You can

								use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was.  See

								also L<perlref>.


								=item Not a format reference


								(F) I'm not sure how you managed to generate a reference to an anonymous

								format, but this indicates you did, and that it didn't exist.


								=item Not a GLOB reference


								(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a "typeglob" (that is, a

								symbol table entry that looks like C<*foo>), but found a reference to

								something else instead.  You can use the ref() function to find out what

								kind of ref it really was.  See L<perlref>.


								=item Not a HASH reference


								(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a hash value, but found a

								reference to something else instead.  You can use the ref() function to

								find out what kind of ref it really was.  See L<perlref>.


								=item Not an ARRAY reference


								(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to an array value, but found

								a reference to something else instead.  You can use the ref() function

								to find out what kind of ref it really was.  See L<perlref>.


								=item Not a perl script


								(F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a well-formed #! line

								even on machines that don't support the #! construct.  The line must

								mention perl.


								=item Not a SCALAR reference


								(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a scalar value, but found

								a reference to something else instead.  You can use the ref() function

								to find out what kind of ref it really was.  See L<perlref>.


								=item Not a subroutine reference


								(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a

								subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead.  You can

								use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was.  See

								also L<perlref>.


								=item Not a subroutine reference in overload table


								(F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that

								doesn't somehow point to a valid subroutine.  See L<overload>.


								=item Not enough arguments for %s


								(F) The function requires more arguments than you specified.


								=item Not enough format arguments


								(W syntax) A format specified more picture fields than the next line

								supplied.  See L<perlform>.


								=item %s: not found


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead

								of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl

								yourself.


								=item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC


								(S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl was unable to find the local

								timezone offset, so it's assuming that local system time is equivalent

								to UTC.  If it's not, define the logical name

								F<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL> to translate to the number of seconds which

								need to be added to UTC to get local time.


								=item Null filename used


								(F) You can't require the null filename, especially because on many

								machines that means the current directory!  See L<perlfunc/require>.


								=item NULL OP IN RUN


								(P debugging) Some internal routine called run() with a null opcode

								pointer.


								=item Null picture in formline


								(F) The first argument to formline must be a valid format picture

								specification.  It was found to be empty, which probably means you

								supplied it an uninitialized value.  See L<perlform>.


								=item Null realloc


								(P) An attempt was made to realloc NULL.


								=item NULL regexp argument


								(P) The internal pattern matching routines blew it big time.


								=item NULL regexp parameter


								(P) The internal pattern matching routines are out of their gourd.


								=item Number too long


								(F) Perl limits the representation of decimal numbers in programs to

								about about 250 characters.  You've exceeded that length.  Future

								versions of Perl are likely to eliminate this arbitrary limitation.  In

								the meantime, try using scientific notation (e.g. "1e6" instead of

								"1_000_000").


								=item Octal number in vector unsupported


								(F) Numbers with a leading C<0> are not currently allowed in vectors.

								The octal number interpretation of such numbers may be supported in a

								future version.


								=item Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable


								(W portable) The octal number you specified is larger than 2**32-1

								(4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems.  See

								L<perlport> for more on portability concerns.


								See also L<perlport> for writing portable code.


								=item Odd number of arguments for overload::constant


								(W) The call to overload::constant contained an odd number of arguments.

								The arguments should come in pairs.


								=item Odd number of elements in hash assignment


								(W misc) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash,

								which is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs.


								=item Offset outside string


								(F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with an offset

								pointing outside the buffer.  This is difficult to imagine.  The sole

								exception to this is that C<sysread()>ing past the buffer will extend

								the buffer and zero pad the new area.


								=item -%s on unopened filehandle %s


								(W unopened) You tried to invoke a file test operator on a filehandle

								that isn't open.  Check your logic.  See also L<perlfunc/-X>.


								=item %s() on unopened %s %s


								(W unopened) An I/O operation was attempted on a filehandle that was

								never initialized.  You need to do an open(), a sysopen(), or a socket()

								call, or call a constructor from the FileHandle package.


								=item oops: oopsAV


								(S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up.


								=item oops: oopsHV


								(S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up.


								=item Operation `%s': no method found, %s


								(F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which no

								handler was defined.  While some handlers can be autogenerated in terms

								of other handlers, there is no default handler for any operation, unless

								C<fallback> overloading key is specified to be true.  See L<overload>.


								=item Operator or semicolon missing before %s


								(S ambiguous) You used a variable or subroutine call where the parser

								was expecting an operator.  The parser has assumed you really meant to

								use an operator, but this is highly likely to be incorrect.  For

								example, if you say "*foo *foo" it will be interpreted as if you said

								"*foo * 'foo'".


								=item "our" variable %s redeclared


								(W misc) You seem to have already declared the same global once before

								in the current lexical scope.


								=item Out of memory!


								(X) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient

								remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request.  Perl has

								no option but to exit immediately.


								=item Out of memory during "large" request for %s


								(F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient

								remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. However,

								the request was judged large enough (compile-time default is 64K), so a

								possibility to shut down by trapping this error is granted.


								=item Out of memory during request for %s


								(X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was

								insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the

								request.


								The request was judged to be small, so the possibility to trap it

								depends on the way perl was compiled.  By default it is not trappable.

								However, if compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of C<$^M> as an

								emergency pool after die()ing with this message.  In this case the error

								is trappable I<once>, and the error message will include the line and file

								where the failed request happened.


								=item Out of memory during ridiculously large request


								(F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes.  This error

								is most likely to be caused by a typo in the Perl program. e.g.,

								C<$arr[time]> instead of C<$arr[$time]>.


								=item Out of memory for yacc stack


								(F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it could continue

								parsing, but realloc() wouldn't give it more memory, virtual or

								otherwise.


								=item @ outside of string


								(F) You had a pack template that specified an absolute position outside

								the string being unpacked.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s


								(W reserved) A lowercase attribute name was used that had a

								package-specific handler.  That name might have a meaning to Perl itself

								some day, even though it doesn't yet.  Perhaps you should use a

								mixed-case attribute name, instead.  See L<attributes>.


								=item page overflow


								(W io) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a

								page.  See L<perlform>.


								=item panic: %s


								(P) An internal error.


								=item panic: ck_grep


								(P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to compile a grep.


								=item panic: ck_split


								(P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to compile a split.


								=item panic: corrupt saved stack index


								(P) The savestack was requested to restore more localized values than

								there are in the savestack.


								=item panic: del_backref


								(P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset a weak

								reference.


								=item panic: die %s


								(P) We popped the context stack to an eval context, and then discovered

								it wasn't an eval context.


								=item panic: pp_match


								(P) The internal pp_match() routine was called with invalid operational

								data.


								=item panic: do_subst


								(P) The internal pp_subst() routine was called with invalid operational

								data.


								=item panic: do_trans_%s


								(P) The internal do_trans routines were called with invalid operational

								data.


								=item panic: frexp


								(P) The library function frexp() failed, making printf("%f") impossible.


								=item panic: goto


								(P) We popped the context stack to a context with the specified label,

								and then discovered it wasn't a context we know how to do a goto in.


								=item panic: INTERPCASEMOD


								(P) The lexer got into a bad state at a case modifier.


								=item panic: INTERPCONCAT


								(P) The lexer got into a bad state parsing a string with brackets.


								=item panic: kid popen errno read


								(F) forked child returned an incomprehensible message about its errno.


								=item panic: last


								(P) We popped the context stack to a block context, and then discovered

								it wasn't a block context.


								=item panic: leave_scope clearsv


								(P) A writable lexical variable became read-only somehow within the

								scope.


								=item panic: leave_scope inconsistency


								(P) The savestack probably got out of sync.  At least, there was an

								invalid enum on the top of it.


								=item panic: magic_killbackrefs


								(P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset all weak

								references to an object.


								=item panic: malloc


								(P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of malloc.


								=item panic: mapstart


								(P) The compiler is screwed up with respect to the map() function.


								=item panic: null array


								(P) One of the internal array routines was passed a null AV pointer.


								=item panic: pad_alloc


								(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating

								and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.


								=item panic: pad_free curpad


								(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating

								and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.


								=item panic: pad_free po


								(P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally.


								=item panic: pad_reset curpad


								(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating

								and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.


								=item panic: pad_sv po


								(P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally.


								=item panic: pad_swipe curpad


								(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating

								and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.


								=item panic: pad_swipe po


								(P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally.


								=item panic: pp_iter


								(P) The foreach iterator got called in a non-loop context frame.


								=item panic: pp_split


								(P) Something terrible went wrong in setting up for the split.


								=item panic: realloc


								(P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of realloc.


								=item panic: restartop


								(P) Some internal routine requested a goto (or something like it), and

								didn't supply the destination.


								=item panic: return


								(P) We popped the context stack to a subroutine or eval context, and

								then discovered it wasn't a subroutine or eval context.


								=item panic: scan_num


								(P) scan_num() got called on something that wasn't a number.


								=item panic: sv_insert


								(P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there

								was string.


								=item panic: top_env


								(P) The compiler attempted to do a goto, or something weird like that.


								=item panic: yylex


								(P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a case modifier.


								=item panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen


								(P) Something tried to call utf16_to_utf8 with an odd (as opposed

								to even) byte length.


								=item Parentheses missing around "%s" list


								(W parenthesis) You said something like


								    my $foo, $bar = @_;


								when you meant


								    my ($foo, $bar) = @_;


								Remember that "my", "our", and "local" bind tighter than comma.


								=item Perl %s required--this is only version %s, stopped


								(F) The module in question uses features of a version of Perl more

								recent than the currently running version.  How long has it been since

								you upgraded, anyway?  See L<perlfunc/require>.


								=item PERL_SH_DIR too long


								(F) An error peculiar to OS/2. PERL_SH_DIR is the directory to find the

								C<sh>-shell in.  See "PERL_SH_DIR" in L<perlos2>.


								=item perl: warning: Setting locale failed.


								(S) The whole warning message will look something like:


									perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

									perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

									        LC_ALL = "En_US",

									        LANG = (unset)

									    are supported and installed on your system.

									perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").


								Exactly what were the failed locale settings varies.  In the above the

								settings were that the LC_ALL was "En_US" and the LANG had no value.

								This error means that Perl detected that you and/or your operating

								system supplier and/or system administrator have set up the so-called

								locale system but Perl could not use those settings.  This was not

								dead serious, fortunately: there is a "default locale" called "C" that

								Perl can and will use, the script will be run.  Before you really fix

								the problem, however, you will get the same error message each time

								you run Perl.  How to really fix the problem can be found in

								L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>.


								=item Permission denied


								(F) The setuid emulator in suidperl decided you were up to no good.


								=item pid %x not a child


								(W exec) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Waitpid() was asked to wait for a

								process which isn't a subprocess of the current process.  While this is

								fine from VMS' perspective, it's probably not what you intended.


								=item POSIX syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes


								(W unsafe) The character class constructs [: :], [= =], and [. .]  go

								I<inside> character classes, the [] are part of the construct, for

								example: /[012[:alpha:]345]/.  Note that [= =] and [. .] are not

								currently implemented; they are simply placeholders for future

								extensions and will cause fatal errors.


								=item POSIX  syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions


								(F regexp) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax

								beginning with "[." and ending with ".]" is reserved for future

								extensions.  If you need to represent those character sequences inside

								a regular expression character class, just quote the square brackets

								with the backslash: "\[." and ".\]".


								=item POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions


								(F) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax

								beginning with "[=" and ending with "=]" is reserved for future

								extensions.  If you need to represent those character sequences inside

								a regular expression character class, just quote the square brackets

								with the backslash: "\[=" and "=\]".


								=item POSIX class [:%s:] unknown


								(F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown.  See

								L<perlre>.


								=item POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument


								(F) Your system has POSIX getpgrp(), which takes no argument, unlike

								the BSD version, which takes a pid.


								=item Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list


								(W qw) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; as with literal

								strings, comment characters are not ignored, but are instead treated as

								literal data.  (You may have used different delimiters than the

								parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently used.)


								You probably wrote something like this:


								    @list = qw(

									a # a comment

								        b # another comment

								    );


								when you should have written this:


								    @list = qw(

									a

								        b

								    );


								If you really want comments, build your list the

								old-fashioned way, with quotes and commas:


								    @list = (

								        'a',    # a comment

								        'b',    # another comment

								    );


								=item Possible attempt to separate words with commas


								(W qw) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; therefore

								commas aren't needed to separate the items.  (You may have used

								different delimiters than the parentheses shown here; braces are also

								frequently used.)


								You probably wrote something like this:


								    qw! a, b, c !;


								which puts literal commas into some of the list items.  Write it without

								commas if you don't want them to appear in your data:


								    qw! a b c !;


								=item Possible memory corruption: %s overflowed 3rd argument


								(F) An ioctl() or fcntl() returned more than Perl was bargaining for.

								Perl guesses a reasonable buffer size, but puts a sentinel byte at the

								end of the buffer just in case.  This sentinel byte got clobbered, and

								Perl assumes that memory is now corrupted.  See L<perlfunc/ioctl>.


								=item Possible Y2K bug: %s


								(W y2k) You are concatenating the number 19 with another number, which

								could be a potential Year 2000 problem.


								=item pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead


								(W deprecated) You have written something like this:


								    sub doit

								    {

								        use attrs qw(locked);

								    }


								You should use the new declaration syntax instead.


								    sub doit : locked

								    {

								        ...


								The C<use attrs> pragma is now obsolete, and is only provided for

								backward-compatibility. See L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes">.


								=item Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s)


								(S precedence) The old irregular construct


								    open FOO || die;


								is now misinterpreted as


								    open(FOO || die);


								because of the strict regularization of Perl 5's grammar into unary and

								list operators.  (The old open was a little of both.)  You must put

								parentheses around the filehandle, or use the new "or" operator instead

								of "||".


								=item Premature end of script headers


								See Server error.


								=item printf() on closed filehandle %s


								(W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime

								before now.  Check your logic flow.


								=item print() on closed filehandle %s


								(W closed) The filehandle you're printing on got itself closed sometime

								before now.  Check your logic flow.


								=item Process terminated by SIG%s


								(W) This is a standard message issued by OS/2 applications, while *nix

								applications die in silence.  It is considered a feature of the OS/2

								port.  One can easily disable this by appropriate sighandlers, see

								L<perlipc/"Signals">.  See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT"

								in L<perlos2>.


								=item Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s


								(S unsafe) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been

								declared or defined with a different function prototype.


								=item Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) There is currently a limit to the size of the min and max values of the

								{min,max} construct. The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where

								the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.


								=item Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression before << HERE %s


								(W regexp) You applied a regular expression quantifier in a place where

								it makes no sense, such as on a zero-width assertion.  Try putting the

								quantifier inside the assertion instead.  For example, the way to match

								"abc" provided that it is followed by three repetitions of "xyz" is

								C</abc(?=(?:xyz){3})/>, not C</abc(?=xyz){3}/>.


								=item Range iterator outside integer range


								(F) One (or both) of the numeric arguments to the range operator ".."

								are outside the range which can be represented by integers internally.

								One possible workaround is to force Perl to use magical string increment

								by prepending "0" to your numbers.


								=item readline() on closed filehandle %s


								(W closed) The filehandle you're reading from got itself closed sometime

								before now.  Check your logic flow.


								=item Reallocation too large: %lx


								(F) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine.


								=item realloc() of freed memory ignored


								(S malloc) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had

								already been freed.


								=item Recompile perl with B<-D>DEBUGGING to use B<-D> switch


								(F debugging) You can't use the B<-D> option unless the code to produce

								the desired output is compiled into Perl, which entails some overhead,

								which is why it's currently left out of your copy.


								=item Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s'


								(F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were used.  Probably indicates

								an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy.


								=item Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method %s


								(F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were encountered while invoking

								a method.  Probably indicates an unintended loop in your inheritance

								hierarchy.


								=item Reference found where even-sized list expected


								(W misc) You gave a single reference where Perl was expecting a list

								with an even number of elements (for assignment to a hash). This usually

								means that you used the anon hash constructor when you meant to use

								parens. In any case, a hash requires key/value B<pairs>.


								    %hash = { one => 1, two => 2, };	# WRONG

								    %hash = [ qw/ an anon array / ];	# WRONG

								    %hash = ( one => 1, two => 2, );	# right

								    %hash = qw( one 1 two 2 );			# also fine


								=item Reference is already weak


								(W misc) You have attempted to weaken a reference that is already weak.

								Doing so has no effect.


								=item Reference miscount in sv_replace()


								(W internal) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with

								a reference count of other than 1.


								=item Reference to nonexistent group before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) You used something like C<\7> in your regular expression, but there are

								not at least seven sets of capturing parentheses in the expression. If you

								wanted to have the character with value 7 inserted into the regular expression,

								prepend a zero to make the number at least two digits: C<\07>


								The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was

								discovered.


								=item regexp memory corruption


								(P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular

								expression compiler gave it.


								=item Regexp out of space


								(P) A "can't happen" error, because safemalloc() should have caught it

								earlier.


								=item Repeat count in pack overflows


								(F) You can't specify a repeat count so large that it overflows your

								signed integers.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item Repeat count in unpack overflows


								(F) You can't specify a repeat count so large that it overflows your

								signed integers.  See L<perlfunc/unpack>.


								=item Reversed %s= operator


								(W syntax) You wrote your assignment operator backwards.  The = must

								always comes last, to avoid ambiguity with subsequent unary operators.


								=item Runaway format


								(F) Your format contained the ~~ repeat-until-blank sequence, but it

								produced 200 lines at once, and the 200th line looked exactly like the

								199th line.  Apparently you didn't arrange for the arguments to exhaust

								themselves, either by using ^ instead of @ (for scalar variables), or by

								shifting or popping (for array variables).  See L<perlform>.


								=item Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as $%s[%s]


								(W syntax) You've used an array slice (indicated by @) to select a

								single element of an array.  Generally it's better to ask for a scalar

								value (indicated by $).  The difference is that C<$foo[&bar]> always

								behaves like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating its

								argument, while C<@foo[&bar]> behaves like a list when you assign to it,

								and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird things

								if you're expecting only one subscript.


								On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the array

								element as a list, you need to look into how references work, because

								Perl will not magically convert between scalars and lists for you.  See

								L<perlref>.


								=item Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}


								(W syntax) You've used a hash slice (indicated by @) to select a single

								element of a hash.  Generally it's better to ask for a scalar value

								(indicated by $).  The difference is that C<$foo{&bar}> always behaves

								like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating its

								argument, while C<@foo{&bar}> behaves like a list when you assign to it,

								and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird things

								if you're expecting only one subscript.


								On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the hash element

								as a list, you need to look into how references work, because Perl will

								not magically convert between scalars and lists for you.  See

								L<perlref>.


								=item Scalars leaked: %d


								(P) Something went wrong in Perl's internal bookkeeping of scalars:

								not all scalar variables were deallocated by the time Perl exited.

								What this usually indicates is a memory leak, which is of course bad,

								especially if the Perl program is intended to be long-running.


								=item Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl


								(F) Oddly, the suidperl program was invoked on a script without a setuid

								or setgid bit set.  This doesn't make much sense.


								=item Search pattern not terminated


								(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a // or m{}

								construct.  Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.

								Missing the leading C<$> from a variable C<$m> may cause this error.


								=item %sseek() on unopened filehandle


								(W unopened) You tried to use the seek() or sysseek() function on a

								filehandle that was either never opened or has since been closed.


								=item select not implemented


								(F) This machine doesn't implement the select() system call.


								=item Semicolon seems to be missing


								(W semicolon) A nearby syntax error was probably caused by a missing

								semicolon, or possibly some other missing operator, such as a comma.


								=item semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string


								(S internal) The internal newSVsv() routine was called to duplicate a

								scalar that had previously been marked as free.


								=item sem%s not implemented


								(F) You don't have System V semaphore IPC on your system.


								=item send() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) The socket you're sending to got itself closed sometime

								before now.  Check your logic flow.


								=item Sequence (? incomplete before << HERE mark in regex m/%s/


								(F) A regular expression ended with an incomplete extension (?. The <<<HERE

								shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See

								L<perlre>.


								=item Sequence (?{...}) not terminated or not {}-balanced in %s


								(F) If the contents of a (?{...}) clause contains braces, they must balance

								for Perl to properly detect the end of the clause. See L<perlre>.


								=item Sequence (?%s...) not implemented before << HERE mark in %s


								(F) A proposed regular expression extension has the character reserved but

								has not yet been written. The << HERE shows in the regular expression about

								where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.


								=item Sequence (?%s...) not recognized before << HERE mark in %s


								(F) You used a regular expression extension that doesn't make sense.

								The << HERE shows in the regular expression about

								where the problem was discovered.

								See L<perlre>.


								=item Sequence (?#... not terminated in regex m/%s/


								(F) A regular expression comment must be terminated by a closing

								parenthesis.  Embedded parentheses aren't allowed.  See L<perlre>.


								=item 500 Server error


								See Server error.


								=item Server error


								This is the error message generally seen in a browser window when trying

								to run a CGI program (including SSI) over the web. The actual error text

								varies widely from server to server. The most frequently-seen variants

								are "500 Server error", "Method (something) not permitted", "Document

								contains no data", "Premature end of script headers", and "Did not

								produce a valid header".


								B<This is a CGI error, not a Perl error>.


								You need to make sure your script is executable, is accessible by the

								user CGI is running the script under (which is probably not the user

								account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables

								(like PATH) from the user it isn't running under, and isn't in a

								location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less.

								Please see the following for more information:


									http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html

									http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html

									ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq

									http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html

									http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html


								You should also look at L<perlfaq9>.


								=item setegid() not implemented


								(F) You tried to assign to C<$)>, and your operating system doesn't

								support the setegid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure

								didn't think so.


								=item seteuid() not implemented


								(F) You tried to assign to C<< $> >>, and your operating system doesn't

								support the seteuid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure

								didn't think so.


								=item setpgrp can't take arguments


								(F) Your system has the setpgrp() from BSD 4.2, which takes no

								arguments, unlike POSIX setpgid(), which takes a process ID and process

								group ID.


								=item setrgid() not implemented


								(F) You tried to assign to C<$(>, and your operating system doesn't

								support the setrgid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure

								didn't think so.


								=item setruid() not implemented


								(F) You tried to assign to C<$<>, and your operating system doesn't

								support the setruid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure

								didn't think so.


								=item setsockopt() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to set a socket option on a closed socket.  Did you

								forget to check the return value of your socket() call?  See

								L<perlfunc/setsockopt>.


								=item Setuid/gid script is writable by world


								(F) The setuid emulator won't run a script that is writable by the

								world, because the world might have written on it already.


								=item shm%s not implemented


								(F) You don't have System V shared memory IPC on your system.


								=item <> should be quotes


								(F) You wrote C<< require <file> >> when you should have written

								C<require 'file'>.


								=item /%s/ should probably be written as "%s"


								(W syntax) You have used a pattern where Perl expected to find a string,

								as in the first argument to C<join>.  Perl will treat the true or false

								result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string, which is

								probably not what you had in mind.


								=item shutdown() on closed socket %s


								(W closed) You tried to do a shutdown on a closed socket.  Seems a bit

								superfluous.


								=item SIG%s handler "%s" not defined


								(W signal) The signal handler named in %SIG doesn't, in fact, exist.

								Perhaps you put it into the wrong package?


								=item sort is now a reserved word


								(F) An ancient error message that almost nobody ever runs into anymore.

								But before sort was a keyword, people sometimes used it as a filehandle.


								=item Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value


								(F) A sort comparison routine must return a number.  You probably blew

								it by not using C<< <=> >> or C<cmp>, or by not using them correctly.

								See L<perlfunc/sort>.


								=item Sort subroutine didn't return single value


								(F) A sort comparison subroutine may not return a list value with more

								or less than one element.  See L<perlfunc/sort>.


								=item Split loop


								(P) The split was looping infinitely.  (Obviously, a split shouldn't

								iterate more times than there are characters of input, which is what

								happened.) See L<perlfunc/split>.


								=item Statement unlikely to be reached


								(W exec) You did an exec() with some statement after it other than a

								die().  This is almost always an error, because exec() never returns

								unless there was a failure.  You probably wanted to use system()

								instead, which does return.  To suppress this warning, put the exec() in

								a block by itself.


								=item stat() on unopened filehandle %s


								(W unopened) You tried to use the stat() function on a filehandle that

								was either never opened or has since been closed.


								=item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading %s


								(P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation

								stubs.  Stubs should never be implicitly created, but explicit calls to

								C<can> may break this.


								=item Subroutine %s redefined


								(W redefine) You redefined a subroutine.  To suppress this warning, say


								    {

									no warnings;

									eval "sub name { ... }";

								    }


								=item Substitution loop


								(P) The substitution was looping infinitely.  (Obviously, a substitution

								shouldn't iterate more times than there are characters of input, which

								is what happened.)  See the discussion of substitution in

								L<perlop/"Quote and Quote-like Operators">.


								=item Substitution pattern not terminated


								(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a s/// or s{}{}

								construct.  Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.

								Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error.


								=item Substitution replacement not terminated


								(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a s/// or s{}{}

								construct.  Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.

								Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error.


								=item substr outside of string


								(W substr),(F) You tried to reference a substr() that pointed outside of

								a string.  That is, the absolute value of the offset was larger than the

								length of the string.  See L<perlfunc/substr>.  This warning is fatal if

								substr is used in an lvalue context (as the left hand side of an

								assignment or as a subroutine argument for example).


								=item suidperl is no longer needed since %s


								(F) Your Perl was compiled with B<-D>SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW, but

								a version of the setuid emulator somehow got run anyway.


								=item Switch (?(condition)... contains too many branches before << HE%s


								(F) A (?(condition)if-clause|else-clause) construct can have at most two

								branches (the if-clause and the else-clause). If you want one or both to

								contain alternation, such as using C<this|that|other>, enclose it in

								clustering parentheses:


								    (?(condition)(?:this|that|other)|else-clause)


								The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was

								discovered. See L<perlre>.


								=item Switch condition not recognized before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) If the argument to the (?(...)if-clause|else-clause) construct is a

								number, it can be only a number. The << HERE shows in the regular expression

								about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.


								=item switching effective %s is not implemented


								(F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, we cannot switch the real

								and effective uids or gids.


								=item syntax error


								(F) Probably means you had a syntax error.  Common reasons include:


								    A keyword is misspelled.

								    A semicolon is missing.

								    A comma is missing.

								    An opening or closing parenthesis is missing.

								    An opening or closing brace is missing.

								    A closing quote is missing.


								Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax

								error giving more information.  (Sometimes it helps to turn on B<-w>.)

								The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when

								it decided to give up.  Sometimes the actual error is several tokens

								before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input.

								Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon

								the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call

								C<perl -c> repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see

								if the error went away.  Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20

								questions>.


								=item syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead

								of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl

								yourself.


								=item %s syntax OK


								(F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> succeeds.


								=item System V %s is not implemented on this machine


								(F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem",

								"shm", or "msg" but that System V IPC is not implemented in your

								machine.  In some machines the functionality can exist but be

								unconfigured.  Consult your system support.


								=item syswrite() on closed filehandle %s


								(W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime

								before now.  Check your logic flow.


								=item Target of goto is too deeply nested


								(F) You tried to use C<goto> to reach a label that was too deeply nested

								for Perl to reach.  Perl is doing you a favor by refusing.


								=item tell() on unopened filehandle


								(W unopened) You tried to use the tell() function on a filehandle that

								was either never opened or has since been closed.


								=item That use of $[ is unsupported


								(F) Assignment to C<$[> is now strictly circumscribed, and interpreted

								as a compiler directive.  You may say only one of


								    $[ = 0;

								    $[ = 1;

								    ...

								    local $[ = 0;

								    local $[ = 1;

								    ...


								This is to prevent the problem of one module changing the array base out

								from under another module inadvertently.  See L<perlvar/$[>.


								=item The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia


								(F) Configure couldn't find the crypt() function on your machine,

								probably because your vendor didn't supply it, probably because they

								think the U.S. Government thinks it's a secret, or at least that they

								will continue to pretend that it is.  And if you quote me on that, I

								will deny it.


								=item The %s function is unimplemented


								The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture, according

								to the probings of Configure.


								=item The stat preceding C<-l _> wasn't an lstat


								(F) It makes no sense to test the current stat buffer for symbolic

								linkhood if the last stat that wrote to the stat buffer already went

								past the symlink to get to the real file.  Use an actual filename

								instead.


								=item This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s)


								=item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s)


								(W internal) Warnings peculiar to VMS.  You tried to change or delete an

								element of the CRTL's internal environ array, but your copy of Perl

								wasn't built with a CRTL that contained the setenv() function.  You'll

								need to rebuild Perl with a CRTL that does, or redefine

								F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that the environ array isn't the

								target of the change to

								%ENV which produced the warning.


								=item times not implemented


								(F) Your version of the C library apparently doesn't do times().  I

								suspect you're not running on Unix.


								=item Too few args to syscall


								(F) There has to be at least one argument to syscall() to specify the

								system call to call, silly dilly.


								=item Too late for "B<-T>" option


								(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the

								B<-T> option, but Perl was not invoked with B<-T> in its command line.

								This is an error because, by the time Perl discovers a B<-T> in a

								script, it's too late to properly taint everything from the environment.

								So Perl gives up.


								If the Perl script is being executed as a command using the #!

								mechanism (or its local equivalent), this error can usually be fixed by

								editing the #! line so that the B<-T> option is a part of Perl's first

								argument: e.g. change C<perl -n -T> to C<perl -T -n>.


								If the Perl script is being executed as C<perl scriptname>, then the

								B<-T> option must appear on the command line: C<perl -T scriptname>.


								=item Too late for "-%s" option


								(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the

								B<-M> or B<-m> option.  This is an error because B<-M> and B<-m> options

								are not intended for use inside scripts.  Use the C<use> pragma instead.


								=item Too late to run %s block


								(W void) A CHECK or INIT block is being defined during run time proper,

								when the opportunity to run them has already passed.  Perhaps you are

								loading a file with C<require> or C<do> when you should be using C<use>

								instead.  Or perhaps you should put the C<require> or C<do> inside a

								BEGIN block.


								=item Too many args to syscall


								(F) Perl supports a maximum of only 14 args to syscall().


								=item Too many arguments for %s


								(F) The function requires fewer arguments than you specified.


								=item Too many )'s


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl.

								Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself.


								=item Too many ('s


								=item trailing \ in regexp


								(F) The regular expression ends with an unbackslashed backslash.

								Backslash it.   See L<perlre>.


								=item Transliteration pattern not terminated


								(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][]

								or y/// or y[][] construct.  Missing the leading C<$> from variables

								C<$tr> or C<$y> may cause this error.


								=item Transliteration replacement not terminated


								(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][]

								construct.


								=item truncate not implemented


								(F) Your machine doesn't implement a file truncation mechanism that

								Configure knows about.


								=item Type of arg %d to %s must be %s (not %s)


								(F) This function requires the argument in that position to be of a

								certain type.  Arrays must be @NAME or C<@{EXPR}>.  Hashes must be

								%NAME or C<%{EXPR}>.  No implicit dereferencing is allowed--use the

								{EXPR} forms as an explicit dereference.  See L<perlref>.


								=item umask: argument is missing initial 0


								(W umask) A umask of 222 is incorrect.  It should be 0222, because octal

								literals always start with 0 in Perl, as in C.


								=item umask not implemented


								(F) Your machine doesn't implement the umask function and you tried to

								use it to restrict permissions for yourself (EXPR & 0700).


								=item Unable to create sub named "%s"


								(F) You attempted to create or access a subroutine with an illegal name.


								=item Unbalanced context: %d more PUSHes than POPs


								(W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how

								many execution contexts were entered and left.


								=item Unbalanced saves: %d more saves than restores


								(W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how

								many values were temporarily localized.


								=item Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs


								(W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how

								many blocks were entered and left.


								=item Unbalanced tmps: %d more allocs than frees


								(W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how

								many mortal scalars were allocated and freed.


								=item Undefined format "%s" called


								(F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist.  Perhaps it's really in

								another package?  See L<perlform>.


								=item Undefined sort subroutine "%s" called


								(F) The sort comparison routine specified doesn't seem to exist.

								Perhaps it's in a different package?  See L<perlfunc/sort>.


								=item Undefined subroutine &%s called


								(F) The subroutine indicated hasn't been defined, or if it was, it has

								since been undefined.


								=item Undefined subroutine called


								(F) The anonymous subroutine you're trying to call hasn't been defined,

								or if it was, it has since been undefined.


								=item Undefined subroutine in sort


								(F) The sort comparison routine specified is declared but doesn't seem

								to have been defined yet.  See L<perlfunc/sort>.


								=item Undefined top format "%s" called


								(F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist.  Perhaps it's really in

								another package?  See L<perlform>.


								=item Undefined value assigned to typeglob


								(W misc) An undefined value was assigned to a typeglob, a la

								C<*foo = undef>.  This does nothing.  It's possible that you really mean

								C<undef *foo>.


								=item %s: Undefined variable


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl.

								Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself.


								=item unexec of %s into %s failed!


								(F) The unexec() routine failed for some reason.  See your local FSF

								representative, who probably put it there in the first place.


								=item Unknown BYTEORDER


								(F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine with this byte

								order.


								=item Unknown switch condition (?(%.2s before << HERE in regex m/%s/


								(F) The condition of a (?(condition)if-clause|else-clause) construct is not

								known. The condition may be lookaround (the condition is true if the

								lookaround is true), a (?{...}) construct (the condition is true if the

								code evaluates to a true value), or a number (the condition is true if the

								set of capturing parentheses named by the number is defined).


								The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was

								discovered.  See L<perlre>.


								=item Unknown open() mode '%s'


								(F) The second argument of 3-argument open() is not among the list

								of valid modes: C<< < >>, C<< > >>, C<<< >> >>>, C<< +< >>,

								C<< +> >>, C<<< +>> >>>, C<-|>, C<|->.


								=item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s


								(P) An error peculiar to VMS.  Perl was reading values for %ENV before

								iterating over it, and someone else stuck a message in the stream of

								data Perl expected.  Someone's very confused, or perhaps trying to

								subvert Perl's population of %ENV for nefarious purposes.


								=item unmatched [ before << HERE mark in regex m/%s/


								(F) The brackets around a character class must match. If you wish to

								include a closing bracket in a character class, backslash it or put it

								first. See L<perlre>. The << HERE shows in the regular expression about

								where the escape was discovered.


								=item unmatched ( in regexp before << HERE mark in regex m/%s/


								(F) Unbackslashed parentheses must always be balanced in regular

								expressions.  If you're a vi user, the % key is valuable for finding the

								matching parenthesis.  See L<perlre>.


								=item Unmatched right %s bracket


								(F) The lexer counted more closing curly or square brackets than opening

								ones, so you're probably missing a matching opening bracket.  As a

								general rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the place

								you were last editing.


								=item Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word


								(W reserved) You used a bareword that might someday be claimed as a

								reserved word.  It's best to put such a word in quotes, or capitalize it

								somehow, or insert an underbar into it.  You might also declare it as a

								subroutine.


								=item Unrecognized character %s


								(F) The Perl parser has no idea what to do with the specified character

								in your Perl script (or eval).  Perhaps you tried to run a compressed

								script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.


								=item /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through


								(W regexp) You used a backslash-character combination which is not

								recognized by Perl inside character classes.  The character was

								understood literally.


								=item Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through before << HERE in m/%s/


								(W regexp) You used a backslash-character combination which is not

								recognized by Perl. This combination appears in an interpolated variable or

								a C<'>-delimited regular expression. The character was understood

								literally. The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where the escape

								was discovered.


								=item Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through


								(W misc) You used a backslash-character combination which is not

								recognized by Perl.


								=item Unrecognized signal name "%s"


								(F) You specified a signal name to the kill() function that was not

								recognized.  Say C<kill -l> in your shell to see the valid signal names

								on your system.


								=item Unrecognized switch: -%s  (-h will show valid options)


								(F) You specified an illegal option to Perl.  Don't do that.  (If you

								think you didn't do that, check the #! line to see if it's supplying the

								bad switch on your behalf.)


								=item Unsuccessful %s on filename containing newline


								(W newline) A file operation was attempted on a filename, and that

								operation failed, PROBABLY because the filename contained a newline,

								PROBABLY because you forgot to chomp() it off.  See L<perlfunc/chomp>.


								=item Unsupported directory function "%s" called


								(F) Your machine doesn't support opendir() and readdir().


								=item Unsupported function %s


								(F) This machine doesn't implement the indicated function, apparently.

								At least, Configure doesn't think so.


								=item Unsupported function fork


								(F) Your version of executable does not support forking.


								Note that under some systems, like OS/2, there may be different flavors

								of Perl executables, some of which may support fork, some not. Try

								changing the name you call Perl by to C<perl_>, C<perl__>, and so on.


								=item Unsupported script encoding


								(F) Your program file begins with a Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) which

								declares it to be in a Unicode encoding that Perl cannot yet read.


								=item Unsupported socket function "%s" called


								(F) Your machine doesn't support the Berkeley socket mechanism, or at

								least that's what Configure thought.


								=item Unterminated attribute list


								(F) The lexer found something other than a simple identifier at the

								start of an attribute, and it wasn't a semicolon or the start of a

								block.  Perhaps you terminated the parameter list of the previous

								attribute too soon.  See L<attributes>.


								=item Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list


								(F) The lexer saw an opening (left) parenthesis character while parsing

								an attribute list, but the matching closing (right) parenthesis

								character was not found.  You may need to add (or remove) a backslash

								character to get your parentheses to balance.  See L<attributes>.


								=item Unterminated compressed integer


								(F) An argument to unpack("w",...) was incompatible with the BER

								compressed integer format and could not be converted to an integer.

								See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item Unterminated <> operator


								(F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting

								a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and

								not finding it.  Chances are you left some needed parentheses out

								earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than".


								=item untie attempted while %d inner references still exist


								(W untie) A copy of the object returned from C<tie> (or C<tied>) was

								still valid when C<untie> was called.


								=item Useless use of %s in void context


								(W void) You did something without a side effect in a context that does

								nothing with the return value, such as a statement that doesn't return a

								value from a block, or the left side of a scalar comma operator.  Very

								often this points not to stupidity on your part, but a failure of Perl

								to parse your program the way you thought it would.  For example, you'd

								get this if you mixed up your C precedence with Python precedence and

								said


								    $one, $two = 1, 2;


								when you meant to say


								    ($one, $two) = (1, 2);


								Another common error is to use ordinary parentheses to construct a list

								reference when you should be using square or curly brackets, for

								example, if you say


								    $array = (1,2);


								when you should have said


								    $array = [1,2];


								The square brackets explicitly turn a list value into a scalar value,

								while parentheses do not.  So when a parenthesized list is evaluated in

								a scalar context, the comma is treated like C's comma operator, which

								throws away the left argument, which is not what you want.  See

								L<perlref> for more on this.


								=item Useless use of "re" pragma


								(W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments.   That isn't very useful.


								=item "use" not allowed in expression


								(F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and

								returns no useful value.  See L<perlmod>.


								=item Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated


								(D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted form

								if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document.


								=item Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated


								(D deprecated) It makes a lot of work for the compiler when you clobber

								a subroutine's argument list, so it's better if you assign the results

								of a split() explicitly to an array (or list).


								=item Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated


								(D deprecated) As an (ahem) accidental feature, C<AUTOLOAD> subroutines

								are looked up as methods (using the C<@ISA> hierarchy) even when the

								subroutines to be autoloaded were called as plain functions (e.g.

								C<Foo::bar()>), not as methods (e.g. C<< Foo->bar() >> or C<<

								$obj->bar() >>).


								This bug will be rectified in future by using method lookup only for

								methods' C<AUTOLOAD>s.  However, there is a significant base of existing

								code that may be using the old behavior.  So, as an interim step, Perl

								currently issues an optional warning when non-methods use inherited

								C<AUTOLOAD>s.


								The simple rule is:  Inheritance will not work when autoloading

								non-methods.  The simple fix for old code is:  In any module that used

								to depend on inheriting C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods from a base class

								named C<BaseClass>, execute C<*AUTOLOAD = \&BaseClass::AUTOLOAD> during

								startup.


								In code that currently says C<use AutoLoader; @ISA = qw(AutoLoader);>

								you should remove AutoLoader from @ISA and change C<use AutoLoader;> to

								C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';>.


								=item Use of %s in printf format not supported


								(F) You attempted to use a feature of printf that is accessible from

								only C.  This usually means there's a better way to do it in Perl.


								=item Use of $* is deprecated


								(D deprecated) This variable magically turned on multi-line pattern

								matching, both for you and for any luckless subroutine that you happen

								to call.  You should use the new C<//m> and C<//s> modifiers now to do

								that without the dangerous action-at-a-distance effects of C<$*>.


								=item Use of %s is deprecated


								(D deprecated) The construct indicated is no longer recommended for use,

								generally because there's a better way to do it, and also because the

								old way has bad side effects.


								=item Use of $# is deprecated


								(D deprecated) This was an ill-advised attempt to emulate a poorly

								defined B<awk> feature.  Use an explicit printf() or sprintf() instead.


								=item Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated


								(D deprecated) The indicated bareword is a reserved word.  Future

								versions of perl may use it as a keyword, so you're better off either

								explicitly quoting the word in a manner appropriate for its context of

								use, or using a different name altogether.  The warning can be

								suppressed for subroutine names by either adding a C<&> prefix, or using

								a package qualifier, e.g. C<&our()>, or C<Foo::our()>.


								=item Use of uninitialized value%s


								(W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already

								defined.  It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake.

								To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables.


								To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation

								you used the undefined value in.  Note, however, that perl optimizes your

								program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily

								appear literally in your program.  For example, C<"that $foo"> is

								usually optimized into C<"that " . $foo>, and the warning will refer to

								the C<concatenation (.)> operator, even though there is no C<.> in your

								program.


								=item Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined()


								(W misc) In a conditional expression, you used <HANDLE>, <*> (glob),

								C<each()>, or C<readdir()> as a boolean value.  Each of these constructs

								can return a value of "0"; that would make the conditional expression

								false, which is probably not what you intended.  When using these

								constructs in conditional expressions, test their values with the

								C<defined> operator.


								=item Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long


								(W misc) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl tried to read the value of an

								%ENV element from a CLI symbol table, and found a resultant string

								longer than 1024 characters.  The return value has been truncated to

								1024 characters.


								=item Variable "%s" is not imported%s


								(F) While "use strict" in effect, you referred to a global variable that

								you apparently thought was imported from another module, because

								something else of the same name (usually a subroutine) is exported by

								that module.  It usually means you put the wrong funny character on the

								front of your variable.


								=item "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s


								(W misc) A "my" or "our" variable has been redeclared in the current

								scope or statement, effectively eliminating all access to the previous

								instance.  This is almost always a typographical error.  Note that the

								earlier variable will still exist until the end of the scope or until

								all closure referents to it are destroyed.


								=item Variable "%s" may be unavailable


								(W closure) An inner (nested) I<anonymous> subroutine is inside a

								I<named> subroutine, and outside that is another subroutine; and the

								anonymous (innermost) subroutine is referencing a lexical variable

								defined in the outermost subroutine.  For example:


								   sub outermost { my $a; sub middle { sub { $a } } }


								If the anonymous subroutine is called or referenced (directly or

								indirectly) from the outermost subroutine, it will share the variable as

								you would expect.  But if the anonymous subroutine is called or

								referenced when the outermost subroutine is not active, it will see the

								value of the shared variable as it was before and during the *first*

								call to the outermost subroutine, which is probably not what you want.


								In these circumstances, it is usually best to make the middle subroutine

								anonymous, using the C<sub {}> syntax.  Perl has specific support for

								shared variables in nested anonymous subroutines; a named subroutine in

								between interferes with this feature.


								=item Variable syntax


								(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead

								of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into

								Perl yourself.


								=item Variable "%s" will not stay shared


								(W closure) An inner (nested) I<named> subroutine is referencing a

								lexical variable defined in an outer subroutine.


								When the inner subroutine is called, it will probably see the value of

								the outer subroutine's variable as it was before and during the *first*

								call to the outer subroutine; in this case, after the first call to the

								outer subroutine is complete, the inner and outer subroutines will no

								longer share a common value for the variable.  In other words, the

								variable will no longer be shared.


								Furthermore, if the outer subroutine is anonymous and references a

								lexical variable outside itself, then the outer and inner subroutines

								will I<never> share the given variable.


								This problem can usually be solved by making the inner subroutine

								anonymous, using the C<sub {}> syntax.  When inner anonymous subs that

								reference variables in outer subroutines are called or referenced, they

								are automatically rebound to the current values of such variables.


								=item Variable length lookbehind not implemented before << HERE in %s


								(F) Lookbehind is allowed only for subexpressions whose length is fixed and

								known at compile time. The << HERE shows in the regular expression about where

								the problem was discovered.


								=item Version number must be a constant number


								(P) The attempt to translate a C<use Module n.n LIST> statement into

								its equivalent C<BEGIN> block found an internal inconsistency with

								the version number.


								=item Warning: something's wrong


								(W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or

								you called it with no args and C<$_> was empty.


								=item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly


								(S) The implicit close() done by an open() got an error indication on

								the close().  This usually indicates your file system ran out of disk

								space.


								=item Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses is ambiguous


								(S ambiguous) You wrote a unary operator followed by something that

								looks like a binary operator that could also have been interpreted as a

								term or unary operator.  For instance, if you know that the rand

								function has a default argument of 1.0, and you write


								    rand + 5;


								you may THINK you wrote the same thing as


								    rand() + 5;


								but in actual fact, you got


								    rand(+5);


								So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.


								=item Wide character in %s


								(F) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting one.


								=item write() on closed filehandle %s


								(W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime

								before now.  Check your logic flow.


								=item X outside of string


								(F) You had a pack template that specified a relative position before

								the beginning of the string being unpacked.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item x outside of string


								(F) You had a pack template that specified a relative position after

								the end of the string being unpacked.  See L<perlfunc/pack>.


								=item Xsub "%s" called in sort


								(F) The use of an external subroutine as a sort comparison is not yet

								supported.


								=item Xsub called in sort


								(F) The use of an external subroutine as a sort comparison is not yet

								supported.


								=item You can't use C<-l> on a filehandle


								(F) A filehandle represents an opened file, and when you opened the file

								it already went past any symlink you are presumably trying to look for.

								Use a filename instead.


								=item YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET!


								(F) And you probably never will, because you probably don't have the

								sources to your kernel, and your vendor probably doesn't give a rip

								about what you want.  Your best bet is to use the wrapsuid script in the

								eg directory to put a setuid C wrapper around your script.


								=item You need to quote "%s"


								(W syntax) You assigned a bareword as a signal handler name.

								Unfortunately, you already have a subroutine of that name declared,

								which means that Perl 5 will try to call the subroutine when the

								assignment is executed, which is probably not what you want.  (If it IS

								what you want, put an & in front.)


								=back


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