In perl.git, the branch maint-5.20 has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/80db6dd05786622c7d131f3e1ac120220f4196bd?hp=ac41b5de56ac9a76accc094d413f1860198dac4f>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 80db6dd05786622c7d131f3e1ac120220f4196bd Author: Doug Bell <[email protected]> Date: Sun Aug 31 03:02:56 2014 -0500 sig() should be kill() There is no sig() function, and the block of text has similar language to a previous block which uses kill(). For: RT #122662 (cherry picked from commit 9589aa831c3533d85bf7042e049cbe02095df9d3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perlfork.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfork.pod b/pod/perlfork.pod index 7729444..fed58f3 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. -- Perl5 Master Repository
