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author | Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> | 2011-04-19 14:29:51 +1000 |
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committer | Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> | 2011-04-19 14:31:20 +1000 |
commit | 7d7b96678bb5a4938235874afe735ca8bf25b319 (patch) | |
tree | fb5c0622fa30a48094aa18613591ba65a1ccdda1 | |
parent | d806590792484020987549ec4683b175c90d6263 (diff) | |
download | perl-7d7b96678bb5a4938235874afe735ca8bf25b319.tar.gz |
Fix a few pod nits
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index fd59a097a6..3f6d2cea5a 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ was passed the result of stringifying the object. =head3 Assignment to C<$0> sets the legacy process name with prctl() on Linux -On Linux the legacy process name is now set with L<prctl(2), in -addition to altering the POSIX name via C<argv[0]> as Perl has done +On Linux the legacy process name is now set with L<prctl(2)>, in +addition to altering the POSIX name via C<argv[0]>, as Perl has done since version 4.000. Now system utilities that read the legacy process name such as I<ps>, I<top>, and I<killall> recognize the name you set when assigning to C<$0>. The string you supply is truncated at 16 bytes; @@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ in use by another thread. It returns true in such cases. =head3 fork() emulation will not wait for signalled children On Windows parent processes would not terminate until all forked -childred had terminated first. However, C<kill("KILL", ...)> is +children had terminated first. However, C<kill("KILL", ...)> is inherently unstable on pseudo-processes, and C<kill("TERM", ...)> might not get delivered if the child is blocked in a system call. @@ -1823,7 +1823,7 @@ directly upon L<version>. L<Module::Build::ModuleInfo> has been deprecated in favor of a standalone copy of it called L<Module::Metadata>. L<Module::Build::YAML> has been deprecated in favor of L<CPAN::Meta::YAML>. -L<Module::Build now> also generates F<META.json> and F<MYMETA.json> files +L<Module::Build> now also generates F<META.json> and F<MYMETA.json> files in accordance with version 2 of the CPAN distribution metadata specification, L<CPAN::Meta::Spec>. The older format F<META.yml> and F<MYMETA.yml> files are still generated. @@ -3364,7 +3364,7 @@ Perl no longer produces this warning: =item * -Opening a glob reference via C<< open($fh, ">", \*glob)>> will no longer +Opening a glob reference via C<< open($fh, ">", \*glob) >> will no longer cause the glob to be corrupted when the filehandle is printed to. This would cause Perl to crash whenever the glob's contents were accessed [perl #77492]. @@ -3968,7 +3968,7 @@ arguments. C<< <expr> >> always respects overloading now if the expression is overloaded. -Due to the way that "S<< <> as>> glob" was parsed differently from +Due to the way that "S<< <> as >> glob" was parsed differently from "S<< <> as >> filehandle" from 5.6 onwards, something like C<< <$foo[0]> >> did not handle overloading, even if C<$foo[0]> was an overloaded object. This was contrary to the documentation for L<overload>, and meant that C<< <> >> |