From 36f31b5005f0d5567cbdeeea5b6180abf2936b23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:04:48 +0000
Subject: perldelta notes about IO::Socket changes (from Graham Barr)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5464
---
 pod/perldelta.pod | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'pod')

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index bd109ef122..a443ff4ebf 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1630,6 +1630,15 @@ a connect attempt.  This allows you to configure its options
 A bug that prevented the IO::Socket::protocol() accessor
 from ever returning the correct value has been corrected.
 
+IO::Socket::connect now uses non-blocking IO instead of alarm()
+to do connect timeouts.
+
+IO::Socket::accept now uses select() instead of alarm() for doing
+timeouts.
+
+IO::Socket::INET->new now sets $! correctly on failure. $@ is
+still set for backwards compatability.
+
 =item JPL
 
 Java Perl Lingo is now distributed with Perl.  See jpl/README
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