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authorDoug Bell <madcityzen@gmail.com>2014-08-31 03:02:56 -0500
committerJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2014-09-18 22:11:47 -0400
commit0e3a33a5591638a228b7c142238aa17051bcabe5 (patch)
tree3211cd29158afdf867cf43fe6caa29d94bdb1cfa
parentc14aac8348c6efdba19f438a181cea7ab24ab109 (diff)
downloadperl-0e3a33a5591638a228b7c142238aa17051bcabe5.tar.gz
sig() should be kill()
There is no sig() function, and the block of text has similar language to a previous block which uses kill(). For: RT #122662 (cherry picked from commit 9589aa831c3533d85bf7042e049cbe02095df9d3)
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfork.pod2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfork.pod b/pod/perlfork.pod
index 7729444c40..fed58f347f 100644
--- a/pod/perlfork.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfork.pod
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ pseudo-child created by it that is also a pseudo-parent will only exit
after their pseudo-children have exited.
Starting with Perl 5.14 a parent will not wait() automatically
-for any child that has been signalled with C<sig('TERM', ...)>
+for any child that has been signalled with C<kill('TERM', ...)>
to avoid a deadlock in case the child is blocking on I/O and
never receives the signal.