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diff --git a/pod/perlipc.pod b/pod/perlipc.pod index 642461531d..962d10625d 100644 --- a/pod/perlipc.pod +++ b/pod/perlipc.pod @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ the pipe and expecting an EOF will never receive it, and therefore never exit. A single process closing a pipe is not enough to close it; the last process with the pipe open must close it for it to read EOF. -There are some features built-in to unix to help prevent this most of +Certain built-in Unix features help prevent this most of the time. For instance, filehandles have a 'close on exec' flag (set I<en masse> with Perl using the C<$^F> L<perlvar>), so that any filehandles which you didn't explicitly route to the STDIN, STDOUT or |