> Hi Perlers,
> 
> I've seen a lot of tutorial or example code dealing with the 
> POSIX module that does something like this:
> 
>   use POSIX ':sys_wait_h';
> 
> What does the ':' mean/do in the above line?
>

Besides googling for it, try reading:
perldoc perlipc
perldoc perldoc -f waitpid
perldoc POSIX  

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