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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-01-04 07:59:44 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-01-04 07:59:44 +0000
commit2d7a92375815264badaef23c612657cbd4799f31 (patch)
treea21bf70b8eb3f8982a62d2acf344771f2d96e952 /README.win32
parent25931d335858f0e7767af03260b9bb9ad7a959d5 (diff)
downloadperl-2d7a92375815264badaef23c612657cbd4799f31.tar.gz
[win32] Various win32 fixes
- support spawn via system(&P_NOWAIT,...) like OS2 - support wait() and waitpid() - s/GetCurrentDirectory/GetCwd/, long-named XS to be removed - support -lfoo properly in ExtUtils::Liblist - fix outdated info about Win32 support in perlfaq2 - fix win32 bug in perldoc that causes spurious warnings - regularize global function/variable names yet more - fix bug in do_aspawn() (it was always invoking shell, instead of almost never) - implement and export win32_wait() - stub version of USE_RTL_THREAD_API p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@391
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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 1b596eb1b6..fb42850597 100644
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -503,9 +503,9 @@ The following functions are currently unavailable: C<fork()>,
C<dump()>, C<chown()>, C<link()>, C<symlink()>, C<chroot()>,
C<setpgrp()> and related security functions, C<setpriority()>,
C<getpriority()>, C<syscall()>, C<fcntl()>, C<getpw*()>,
-C<wait*()>, C<msg*()>, C<shm*()>, C<sem*()>, C<alarm()>,
-C<socketpair()>, C<*netent()>, C<*protoent()>, C<*servent()>,
-C<*hostent()>, C<getnetby*()>.
+C<msg*()>, C<shm*()>, C<sem*()>, C<alarm()>, C<socketpair()>,
+C<*netent()>, C<*protoent()>, C<*servent()>, C<*hostent()>,
+C<getnetby*()>.
This list is possibly incomplete.
=item *
@@ -524,9 +524,9 @@ functionality of ioctlsocket() in the Winsock API).
=item *
-C<$?> is set in a way compatible with Unix, so the exitstatus of the
-subprocess is actually obtained by "$? >> 8". Failure to spawn() the
-subprocess is indicated by setting $? to "255 << 8".
+Failure to spawn() a subprocess is indicated by setting $? to "255 << 8".
+C<$?> is set in a way compatible with Unix (i.e. the exitstatus of the
+subprocess is obtained by "$? >> 8", as described in the documentation).
=item *
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ sundry hacks since then.
Borland support was added in 5.004_01 (Gurusamy Sarathy).
-Last updated: 23 December 1997
+Last updated: 3 January 1998
=cut