Resync with mainline prior to post-5.6.0 updates

p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6111

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm b/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
index d485e0e159..b51f2c9f15 100644
--- a/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
+++ b/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
@@ -637,6 +637,6 @@ it encounters an error.
 =head1 REVISION
 
 This document was last revised on 13-Oct-1998, for Perl 5.004, 5.005, and
-5.006.
+5.6.0.
 
 =cut
diff --git a/vms/ext/vmsish.pm b/vms/ext/vmsish.pm
index a0e6e3cc21..5d738d0a82 100644
--- a/vms/ext/vmsish.pm
+++ b/vms/ext/vmsish.pm
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
 
 If no import list is supplied, all possible VMS-specific features are
 assumed.  Currently, there are four VMS-specific features available:
-'status' (a.k.a '$?'), 'exit', 'time' and 'messages' (a.k.a 'message').
+'status' (a.k.a '$?'), 'exit', 'time' and 'hushed'.
 
 =over 6
 
@@ -44,8 +44,13 @@ default of Universal Time (a.k.a Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT).
 
 =item C<vmsish hushed>
 
-This supresses printing of VMS status messages to SYS$OUTPUT and SYS$ERROR
-if Perl terminates with an error status.
+This suppresses printing of VMS status messages to SYS$OUTPUT and SYS$ERROR
+if Perl terminates with an error status.  This primarily effects error
+exits from things like Perl compiler errors or "standard Perl" runtime errors,
+where text error messages are also generated by Perl.
+
+The error exits from inside the core are generally more serious, and are
+not supressed.
 
 =back