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@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ would emulate POSIX semantics on Linux systems using LinuxThreads, a
partial implementation of POSIX Threads that has since been superseded
by the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL).
-LinuxThreads is now obsolete on Linux, and and caching C<getpid()>
+LinuxThreads is now obsolete on Linux, and caching C<getpid()>
like this made embedding perl unnecessarily complex (since you'd have
to manually update the value of $$), so now C<$$> and C<getppid()>
will always return the same values as the underlying C library.