[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_19 to perl5.003_20]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Start all helper scripts with $startsh
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Support libperl.so under FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:41:49 +0100
From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Files: Configure Makefile.SH
Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970105224149.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b126116e5ae3d57fa007f8a42fd506805b35163b)

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Rescind named closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: perly.c perly.y

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3112f5de73952f91aa4e8005d9852dfddbcf0402)

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure hints/dec_osf.sh

    private-msgid: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed

Subject: Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs".
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: MANIFEST

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: tiny doc patches
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b681178584626ba3718f1279845fd452317134c1)

Subject: doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 38e3adfd2e3d40b46e465482945c4f3de4bb50ef)

Subject: doc patch: perldsc
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Msg-ID: <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 4d42f92e5bf79556508016b7af91233b12e526eb)

Subject: scalar caller doc fix
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 218104faecb0ec19e0f4f89e084959e757a5230f)

Subject: Misc perlfunc updates
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: sigaction() problems
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 84e96f2bcc509ba2fb5d2c9608a30cc3cfdea41a)

Subject: Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm

Subject: Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:25 +0100
From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
Files: MANIFEST hints/aux.sh hints/broken-db.msg hints/freebsd.sh

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 692df45da95e2b7d14c4560347ef4555bb40b621)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y

Subject: plug for safe/opcode leaks
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
Files: op.c
Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5cbfc2849d37f748a8facbcbf1c889c575943488)

Subject: Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c

    private-msgid: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

 TESTS

Subject: New test: comp/proto.t
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 8c1635e65dc1b3900503d444e985e3f0e5601454)

2 files changed, 36 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
index 22eed0283b..31ee642bd7 100644
--- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ sub unimpl {
 package POSIX::SigAction;
 
 sub new {
-    bless {HANDLER => $_[1], MASK => $_[2], FLAGS => $_[3]};
+    bless {HANDLER => $_[1], MASK => $_[2], FLAGS => $_[3] || 0}, $_[0];
 }
 
 ############################
@@ -385,35 +385,35 @@ sub offsetof {
 }
 
 sub clearerr {
-    redef "FileHandle::clearerr()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::clearerr()";
 }
 
 sub fclose {
-    redef "FileHandle::close()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::close()";
 }
 
 sub fdopen {
-    redef "FileHandle::new_from_fd()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::new_from_fd()";
 }
 
 sub feof {
-    redef "FileHandle::eof()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::eof()";
 }
 
 sub fgetc {
-    redef "FileHandle::getc()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::getc()";
 }
 
 sub fgets {
-    redef "FileHandle::gets()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::gets()";
 }
 
 sub fileno {
-    redef "FileHandle::fileno()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::fileno()";
 }
 
 sub fopen {
-    redef "FileHandle::open()";
+    redef "IO::File::open()";
 }
 
 sub fprintf {
@@ -441,27 +441,27 @@ sub fscanf {
 }
 
 sub fseek {
-    redef "FileHandle::seek()";
+    redef "IO::Seekable::seek()";
 }
 
 sub ferror {
-    redef "FileHandle::error()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::error()";
 }
 
 sub fflush {
-    redef "FileHandle::flush()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::flush()";
 }
 
 sub fgetpos {
-    redef "FileHandle::getpos()";
+    redef "IO::Seekable::getpos()";
 }
 
 sub fsetpos {
-    redef "FileHandle::setpos()";
+    redef "IO::Seekable::setpos()";
 }
 
 sub ftell {
-    redef "FileHandle::tell()";
+    redef "IO::Seekable::tell()";
 }
 
 sub fwrite {
@@ -534,11 +534,11 @@ sub sscanf {
 }
 
 sub tmpfile {
-    redef "FileHandle::new_tmpfile()";
+    redef "IO::File::new_tmpfile()";
 }
 
 sub ungetc {
-    redef "FileHandle::ungetc()";
+    redef "IO::Handle::ungetc()";
 }
 
 sub vfprintf {
diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
index 2bb8743262..34597d1bd5 100644
--- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ This is identical to Perl's builtin C<chown()> function.
 
 =item clearerr
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::clearerr()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::clearerr()> instead.
 
 =item clock
 
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ This is identical to Perl's builtin C<abs()> function.
 
 =item fclose
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::close()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::close()> instead.
 
 =item fcntl
 
@@ -285,35 +285,35 @@ This is identical to Perl's builtin C<fcntl()> function.
 
 =item fdopen
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::new_from_fd()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::new_from_fd()> instead.
 
 =item feof
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::eof()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::eof()> instead.
 
 =item ferror
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::error()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::error()> instead.
 
 =item fflush
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::flush()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::flush()> instead.
 
 =item fgetc
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::getc()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::getc()> instead.
 
 =item fgetpos
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::getpos()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::getpos()> instead.
 
 =item fgets
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::gets()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::gets()> instead.
 
 =item fileno
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::fileno()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::fileno()> instead.
 
 =item floor
 
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ This is identical to the C function C<fmod()>.
 
 =item fopen
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::open()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::File::open()> instead.
 
 =item fork
 
@@ -380,11 +380,11 @@ fscanf() is C-specific--use <> and regular expressions instead.
 
 =item fseek
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::seek()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::seek()> instead.
 
 =item fsetpos
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::setpos()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::setpos()> instead.
 
 =item fstat
 
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ Perl's builtin C<stat> function.
 
 =item ftell
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::tell()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Seekable::tell()> instead.
 
 =item fwrite
 
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ seconds.
 
 =item tmpfile
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::new_tmpfile()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::File::new_tmpfile()> instead.
 
 =item tmpnam
 
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ Get name of current operating system.
 
 =item ungetc
 
-Use method C<FileHandle::ungetc()> instead.
+Use method C<IO::Handle::ungetc()> instead.
 
 =item unlink
 
@@ -1314,9 +1314,10 @@ Creates a new C<POSIX::SigAction> object which corresponds to the C
 C<struct sigaction>.  This object will be destroyed automatically when it is
 no longer needed.  The first parameter is the fully-qualified name of a sub
 which is a signal-handler.  The second parameter is a C<POSIX::SigSet>
-object.  The third parameter contains the C<sa_flags>.
+object, it defaults to the empty set.  The third parameter contains the
+C<sa_flags>, it defaults to 0.
 
-	$sigset = POSIX::SigSet->new;
+	$sigset = POSIX::SigSet->new(SIGINT, SIGQUIT);
 	$sigaction = POSIX::SigAction->new( 'main::handler', $sigset, &POSIX::SA_NOCLDSTOP );
 
 This C<POSIX::SigAction> object should be used with the C<POSIX::sigaction()>