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authorJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2011-04-19 14:29:51 +1000
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2011-04-19 14:31:20 +1000
commit7d7b96678bb5a4938235874afe735ca8bf25b319 (patch)
treefb5c0622fa30a48094aa18613591ba65a1ccdda1
parentd806590792484020987549ec4683b175c90d6263 (diff)
downloadperl-7d7b96678bb5a4938235874afe735ca8bf25b319.tar.gz
Fix a few pod nits
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod12
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<< <> >>