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| author | brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org> | 2010-01-13 17:19:25 +0100 |
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| committer | brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org> | 2010-01-13 17:19:25 +0100 |
| commit | ac0367249e563330db9a9a04f778eae30defbab0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f99b67d93a06be0fb7aa702db8dfd4e24ff501d /pod/perlipc.pod | |
| parent | 8d2e243f5816f9d2c4247f962523e4220e4a9ce8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ac0367249e563330db9a9a04f778eae30defbab0.tar.gz | |
* Em dash cleanup in pod/
I looked at all the instances of spaces around -- and in most cases
converted the sentences to use more appropriate punctuation. In
general, the -- in the perl docs seem to be there only to make
really complicated and really long sentences.
I didn't look at the closed em-dashes. They probably have the same
sentence-complexity problem.
I left some open em-dashes in place. Those are the ones used in
lists.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlipc.pod')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlipc.pod b/pod/perlipc.pod index 25b310bb7b..4f6c0f0484 100644 --- a/pod/perlipc.pod +++ b/pod/perlipc.pod @@ -316,8 +316,8 @@ The pragmatic approach was to say "I know the risks, but prefer the convenience", and to do anything you wanted in your signal handler, and be prepared to clean up core dumps now and again. -In Perl 5.7.3 and later to avoid these problems signals are -"deferred"-- that is when the signal is delivered to the process by +Perl 5.7.3 and later avoid these problems by "deferring" signals. +That is, when the signal is delivered to the process by the system (to the C code that implements Perl) a flag is set, and the handler returns immediately. Then at strategic "safe" points in the Perl interpreter (e.g. when it is about to execute a new opcode) the |