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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000
commit4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6 (patch)
tree9418d63a58345f7e8f9e1ff644fa85c022b18650 /lib/IPC
parent94a371ee7128c99a38226de46cbec028ae3a990e (diff)
downloadperl-4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6.tar.gz
various pod nits (from Larry Virden and others)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5917
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/IPC')
-rw-r--r--lib/IPC/Open3.pm2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/IPC/Open3.pm b/lib/IPC/Open3.pm
index 99709ac0ca..46ebd68cef 100644
--- a/lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+++ b/lib/IPC/Open3.pm
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ failure: it just raises an exception matching C</^open3:/>. However,
C<exec> failures in the child are not detected. You'll have to
trap SIGPIPE yourself.
-open2() does not wait for and reap the child process after it exits.
+open3() does not wait for and reap the child process after it exits.
Except for short programs where it's acceptable to let the operating system
take care of this, you need to do this yourself. This is normally as
simple as calling C<waitpid $pid, 0> when you're done with the process.