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author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-19 18:43:06 -0800 |
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committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-19 18:43:06 -0800 |
commit | 6eecded3077c953679e6e6139fd5d033bfd9eeac (patch) | |
tree | 0f7d0830a58fd5ad8fa691b0e07a7361725beb4f /pod/perlfork.pod | |
parent | 8eef6978dfd4059fb861f5604b6109cffa2cebee (diff) | |
download | perl-6eecded3077c953679e6e6139fd5d033bfd9eeac.tar.gz |
perlfork tweaks
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfork.pod b/pod/perlfork.pod index c09433f95e..e7bcff4402 100644 --- a/pod/perlfork.pod +++ b/pod/perlfork.pod @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ thread that implements this child "process" as the pseudo-process. To the Perl program that called fork(), all this is designed to be transparent. The parent returns from the fork() with a pseudo-process -ID that can be subsequently used in any process manipulation functions; +ID that can be subsequently used in any process-manipulation functions; the child returns from the fork() with a value of C<0> to signify that it is the child pseudo-process. @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ A way to mark a pseudo-processes as running detached from their parent (so that the parent would not have to wait() for them if it doesn't want to) will be provided in future. -=head2 CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS +=head1 CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS =over 8 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ on this. Perl will completely read from all open directory handles until they reach the end of the stream. It will then seekdir() back to the original location and all future readdir() requests will be fulfilled -from the cache buffer. That means that neither directory handle held +from the cache buffer. That means that neither the directory handle held by the parent process nor the one held by the child process will see any changes made to the directory after the fork() call. |