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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1999-10-27 14:06:44 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1999-10-27 14:06:44 +0000
commit44df151e4458e9bf9344461ae3bf7e4905725e11 (patch)
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parent47ec2758dba1fc7c51534cbb6a30565eb3790ae7 (diff)
parent5b9682978328607bb89bcea4b26ea0930848c845 (diff)
downloadperl-44df151e4458e9bf9344461ae3bf7e4905725e11.tar.gz
Integrate with Sarathy; manual resolve on regcomp.c conflicts
(Ilya's changes won). p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4468
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@@ -826,6 +826,15 @@ L<perlfunc/goto>.
(F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval "string".
(You can use it to jump out of an eval {BLOCK}, but you probably don't want to.)
+=item Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default
+
+(W) Perl has detected that it is being run with the SIGCHLD signal
+(sometimes known as SIGCLD) disabled. Since disabling this signal
+will interfere with proper determination of exit status of child
+processes, Perl has reset the signal to its default value.
+This situation typically indicates that the parent program under
+which Perl may be running (e.g. cron) is being very careless.
+
=item Can't localize through a reference
(F) You said something like C<local $$ref>, which Perl can't currently