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| author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2012-09-19 17:32:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2012-09-19 17:40:46 +0100 |
| commit | 3cd504478422d444c3a75de45b4fe50f5bab7843 (patch) | |
| tree | 104df7801454d6f5c938a335d8fe94c1da50357f /pod | |
| parent | 436e4aacde005119cc1005d5e9aecc3b707d16fc (diff) | |
| download | perl-3cd504478422d444c3a75de45b4fe50f5bab7843.tar.gz | |
Note that sleep is emulated on Windows to allow alarm interrupts
This came up recently in [perl #33096].
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlport.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 6be7487c3d..ac35534c62 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1923,7 +1923,9 @@ Not implemented. (Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS) =item sleep -Limited to a maximum of 4294967 seconds, approximately 49 days. (Win32) +Emulated using synchronization functions such that it can be +interrupted by alarm(), and limited to a maximum of 4294967 seconds, +approximately 49 days. (Win32) =item sockatmark |