[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)

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perltoc.pod b/pod/perltoc.pod
index 96cf9f97bf..cbc17857a4 100644
--- a/pod/perltoc.pod
+++ b/pod/perltoc.pod
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl
-documentation set.  It is meant to be bescanned quickly or grepped
+documentation set.  It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped
 through to locate the proper section you're looking for.
 
 =head1 BASIC DOCUMENTATION
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5DB, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL, PERLLIB
 
 =item Internal Change: FileHandle Deprecated
 
-=item Internal Change: PerlIO internal IO abstraction interface.
+=item Internal Change: PerlIO internal IO abstraction interface
 
 =item New and Changed Built-in Variables
 
@@ -340,16 +340,16 @@ map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MODE, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS,
 msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, my EXPR, next LABEL,
 next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,
 opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package
-NAMESPACE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pos SCALAR, pos, print
-FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST, printf
-FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/, qq/STRING/,
-qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta, rand EXPR, rand, read
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir
-DIRHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LEN,FLAGS, redo
-LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require EXPR, require,
-reset EXPR, reset, return LIST, reverse LIST, rewinddir DIRHANDLE, rindex
-STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME, rmdir, s///, scalar
-EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS, select
+NAMESPACE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos,
+print FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST,
+printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/,
+qq/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta, rand EXPR,
+rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
+readdir DIRHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LEN,FLAGS,
+redo LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require EXPR,
+require, reset EXPR, reset, return LIST, reverse LIST, rewinddir DIRHANDLE,
+rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME, rmdir, s///,
+scalar EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS, select
 FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl
 ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
 SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
@@ -361,20 +361,19 @@ SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort BLOCK LIST,
 sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,
 splice ARRAY,OFFSET, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,
 split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR,
-stat FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME,
-sub NAME BLOCK, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LEN, substr EXPR,OFFSET, symlink
-OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen
+stat EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK,
+substr EXPR,OFFSET,LEN, substr EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE,
+syscall LIST, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen
 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET,
 sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, system LIST, syswrite
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, tell
-FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied
-VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate
-EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR, ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef
-EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE,
-unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module LIST, use Module, use Module VERSION LIST,
-use VERSION, utime LIST, values ASSOC_ARRAY, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait,
-waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR,
-write, y///
+FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
+VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
+FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
+ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
+TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module LIST, use
+Module, use Module VERSION LIST, use VERSION, utime LIST, values
+ASSOC_ARRAY, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn
+LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
 
 =back
 
@@ -670,8 +669,7 @@ LC_TIME, LANG
 =item DESCRIPTION
 
 arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
-more elaborate constructs, recursive and self-referential data structures,
-objects
+more elaborate constructs
 
 =item REFERENCES
 
@@ -1192,7 +1190,7 @@ program
 
 =item AUTHOR
 
-=head2 perlapio, perlio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
+=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
 
 =item SYNOPSIS