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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-07-21 23:07:43 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-07-21 23:07:43 +0000
commit862b53658b7e92dd65bb88f3797b867ca86eda1f (patch)
treed590ddd6e816cb980e1165bd19d33e10c9106da9 /pod
parentd536870a93a670c31df812c6614c7c6180896307 (diff)
downloadperl-862b53658b7e92dd65bb88f3797b867ca86eda1f.tar.gz
Integrate change #11408 from macperl.
p4raw-link: @11408 on //depot/maint-5.6/macperl: dbb4888cf530f5a0f1689f26b30cde9e6c537f71 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11433 p4raw-integrated: from //depot/maint-5.6/macperl@11432 'merge in' README.macos (@11199..) pod/perlport.pod (@11263..)
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 649623089e..73d8d86e29 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -795,15 +795,15 @@ Also see:
=item *
-The MacPerl Pages, http://www.macperl.com/ .
+MacPerl Development, http://dev.macperl.org/ .
=item *
-The MacPerl mailing lists, http://www.macperl.org/ .
+The MacPerl Pages, http://www.macperl.com/ .
=item *
-MacPerl Module Porters, http://pudge.net/mmp/ .
+The MacPerl mailing lists, http://lists.perl.org/ .
=back
@@ -1535,9 +1535,6 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Plan9)
=item glob
-Globbing built-in, but only C<*> and C<?> metacharacters are supported.
-(S<Mac OS>)
-
This operator is implemented via the File::Glob extension on most
platforms. See L<File::Glob> for portability information.
@@ -1552,8 +1549,10 @@ Available only for socket handles. (S<RISC OS>)
=item kill SIGNAL, LIST
-Not implemented, hence not useful for taint checking. (S<Mac OS>,
-S<RISC OS>)
+C<kill(0, LIST)> is implemented for the sake of taint checking;
+use with other signals is unimplemented. (S<Mac OS>)
+
+Not implemented, hence not useful for taint checking. (S<RISC OS>)
C<kill()> doesn't have the semantics of C<raise()>, i.e. it doesn't send
a signal to the identified process like it does on Unix platforms.
@@ -1606,8 +1605,6 @@ platforms. (SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX)
=item pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>)
-
Very limited functionality. (MiNT)
=item readlink EXPR
@@ -1669,7 +1666,7 @@ be implemented even in UNIX platforms.
=item socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS, VM/ESA)
+Not implemented. (Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS, VM/ESA)
=item stat FILEHANDLE
@@ -1921,8 +1918,8 @@ distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used
2) Mac OS Classic (pre-X) is almost 5.6.1-ready; building from
the source does work with 5.6.1, but additional MacOS specific
- source code is needed for a complete build. Contact the mailing
- list macperl-porters@macperl.org for more information.
+ source code is needed for a complete build. See the web
+ site http://dev.macperl.org/ for more information.
3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
The following platforms worked for the previous releases (5.6.0 and 5.7.0),