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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-07-11 20:37:23 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-07-11 20:37:23 +0000
commitc2e66d9e68806a7000ee1a4760c35703a0e0ae89 (patch)
tree32508ca896b6e213afc07430f7aa223c0e9dde28 /ext/POSIX
parent4755096ec61711c5104ba0b6b9314f32ca0351fe (diff)
downloadperl-c2e66d9e68806a7000ee1a4760c35703a0e0ae89.tar.gz
integrate cfgperl changes#6325..6373 into mainline
(NOTE: today's batch of integrations still untested) p4raw-link: @6373 (not found) p4raw-link: @6325 on //depot/cfgperl: d6ac44cc5a00fa38a56717785146bc16b716472c p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6373
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-rw-r--r--ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod45
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
index 9abad2a86f..314147cb2b 100644
--- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ I<race condition>.
=item acos
This is identical to the C function C<acos()>, returning
-the arcus cosine of its numerical argument.
+the arcus cosine of its numerical argument. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item alarm
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ default to zero (and the first two are usually ignored anyway).
=item asin
This is identical to the C function C<asin()>, returning
-the arcus sine of its numerical argument.
+the arcus sine of its numerical argument. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item assert
@@ -131,13 +131,13 @@ to achieve similar things.
=item atan
This is identical to the C function C<atan()>, returning the
-arcus tangent of its numerical argument.
+arcus tangent of its numerical argument. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item atan2
This is identical to Perl's builtin C<atan2()> function, returning
the arcus tangent defined by its two numerical arguments, the I<y>
-coordinate and the I<x> coordinate.
+coordinate and the I<x> coordinate. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item atexit
@@ -220,11 +220,12 @@ a directory handle, see L<perlfunc/closedir>.
This is identical to Perl's builtin C<cos()> function, for returning
the cosine of its numerical argument, see L<perlfunc/cos>.
+See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item cosh
This is identical to the C function C<cosh()>, for returning
-the hyperbolic cosine of its numeric argument.
+the hyperbolic cosine of its numeric argument. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item creat
@@ -334,7 +335,7 @@ the absolute value of the numerical argument, see L<perlfunc/abs>.
=item fclose
-Use method C<IO::Handle::close()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::close()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/close>.
=item fcntl
@@ -343,11 +344,11 @@ see L<perlfunc/fcntl>.
=item fdopen
-Use method C<IO::Handle::new_from_fd()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::new_from_fd()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/open>.
=item feof
-Use method C<IO::Handle::eof()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::eof()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/eof>.
=item ferror
@@ -356,14 +357,15 @@ Use method C<IO::Handle::error()> instead.
=item fflush
Use method C<IO::Handle::flush()> instead.
+See also L<perlvar/$OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH>.
=item fgetc
-Use method C<IO::Handle::getc()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::getc()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/read>.
=item fgetpos
-Use method C<IO::Seekable::getpos()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::getpos()> instead, or see L<L/seek>.
=item fgets
@@ -372,7 +374,7 @@ as L<perlfunc/readline>.
=item fileno
-Use method C<IO::Handle::fileno()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::fileno()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/fileno>.
=item floor
@@ -391,11 +393,13 @@ less than the magnitude of C<$y>.
=item fopen
-Use method C<IO::File::open()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::File::open()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/open>.
=item fork
-This is identical to Perl's builtin C<fork()> function.
+This is identical to Perl's builtin C<fork()> function
+for duplicating the current process, see L<perlfunc/fork>
+and L<perlfork> if you are in Windows.
=item fpathconf
@@ -446,11 +450,11 @@ fscanf() is C-specific, use E<lt>E<gt> and regular expressions instead.
=item fseek
-Use method C<IO::Seekable::seek()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::seek()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/seek>.
=item fsetpos
-Use method C<IO::Seekable::setpos()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::setpos()> instead, or seek L<perlfunc/seek>.
=item fstat
@@ -463,7 +467,7 @@ Perl's builtin C<stat> function.
=item ftell
-Use method C<IO::Seekable::tell()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::tell()> instead, or see L<perlfunc/tell>.
=item fwrite
@@ -648,7 +652,7 @@ C</[[:isxdigit:]]/> construct instead, or simply C</[0-9a-f]/i>.
=item kill
This is identical to Perl's builtin C<kill()> function for sending
-signals to processes (oftern to terminate them), see L<perlfunc/kill>.
+signals to processes (often to terminate them), see L<perlfunc/kill>.
=item labs
@@ -1124,12 +1128,13 @@ Returns C<undef> on failure.
This is identical to Perl's builtin C<sin()> function
for returning the sine of the numerical argument,
-see L<perlfunc/sin>.
+see L<perlfunc/sin>. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item sinh
This is identical to the C function C<sinh()>
for returning the hyperbolic sine of the numerical argument.
+See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item sleep
@@ -1352,12 +1357,12 @@ L<perlfunc/system>.
=item tan
This is identical to the C function C<tan()>, returning the
-tangent of the numerical argument.
+tangent of the numerical argument. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item tanh
This is identical to the C function C<tanh()>, returning the
-hyperbolic tangent of the numerical argument.
+hyperbolic tangent of the numerical argument. See also L<Math::Trig>.
=item tcdrain