Bug#592727: perl-doc: perlrun incorrectly specifies <> on special arguments such as '>file'

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.10.1-14
Severity: normal

The perlrun man page should clearly say what happens with <> when
there is a special argument such as '>file'.

Under the -n option, one can read:

    Also note that "<>" passes command line arguments to "open" in
    perlfunc, which doesn't necessarily interpret them as file names.
    See  perlop for possible security implications.

But this is more general. Moreover this behavior doesn't seem to
occur when the -i option is used (probably as a side effect due
to the renaming), and this should be documented.

In particular, due to that, the equivalence given later under the -i
option doesn't apply on such special arguments.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl                          5.10.1-14  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
ii  groff                         1.20.1-10  GNU troff text-formatting system
ii  man-db [man-browser]          2.5.7-3    on-line manual pager

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