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authorLarry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>1991-01-11 08:58:45 +0000
committerLarry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>1991-01-11 08:58:45 +0000
commit27e2fb84680b9cc1db17238d5bf10b97626f477f (patch)
tree39824ce086ad815a976233d0edef5992b06e833c /perl.man.2
parentc623bd54707a8bf975b272e17e7c3b3342b31eb0 (diff)
downloadperl-27e2fb84680b9cc1db17238d5bf10b97626f477f.tar.gz
perl 3.0 patch #44 patch #42, continuedperl-3.044
See patch #42.
Diffstat (limited to 'perl.man.2')
-rw-r--r--perl.man.212
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/perl.man.2 b/perl.man.2
index b9c37ef313..a6ab6a1a86 100644
--- a/perl.man.2
+++ b/perl.man.2
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
''' Beginning of part 2
-''' $Header: perl_man.2,v 3.0.1.10 90/11/10 01:46:29 lwall Locked $
+''' $Header: perl_man.2,v 3.0.1.11 91/01/11 18:17:08 lwall Locked $
'''
''' $Log: perl.man.2,v $
+''' Revision 3.0.1.11 91/01/11 18:17:08 lwall
+''' patch42: fixed some man page entries
+'''
''' Revision 3.0.1.10 90/11/10 01:46:29 lwall
''' patch38: random cleanup
''' patch38: added alarm function
@@ -88,8 +91,8 @@ Only one timer may be counting at once. Each call disables the previous
timer, and an argument of 0 may be supplied to cancel the previous timer
without starting a new one.
The returned value is the amount of time remaining on the previous timer.
-.Ip "atan2(X,Y)" 8 2
-Returns the arctangent of X/Y in the range
+.Ip "atan2(Y,X)" 8 2
+Returns the arctangent of Y/X in the range
.if t \-\(*p to \(*p.
.if n \-PI to PI.
.Ip "bind(SOCKET,NAME)" 8 2
@@ -653,6 +656,7 @@ the filehandle.
.Ip "flock(FILEHANDLE,OPERATION)" 8 4
Calls flock(2) on FILEHANDLE.
See manual page for flock(2) for definition of OPERATION.
+Returns true for success, false on failure.
Will produce a fatal error if used on a machine that doesn't implement
flock(2).
Here's a mailbox appender for BSD systems.
@@ -957,7 +961,7 @@ Here is yet another way to print your environment:
@keys = keys %ENV;
@values = values %ENV;
while ($#keys >= 0) {
- print pop(keys), \'=\', pop(values), "\en";
+ print pop(@keys), \'=\', pop(@values), "\en";
}
or how about sorted by key: