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-rw-r--r--pod/perlfork.pod2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfork.pod b/pod/perlfork.pod
index 7729444c40..fed58f347f 100644
--- a/pod/perlfork.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfork.pod
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ pseudo-child created by it that is also a pseudo-parent will only exit
after their pseudo-children have exited.
Starting with Perl 5.14 a parent will not wait() automatically
-for any child that has been signalled with C<sig('TERM', ...)>
+for any child that has been signalled with C<kill('TERM', ...)>
to avoid a deadlock in case the child is blocking on I/O and
never receives the signal.