Explicitly load PerlIO::encoding when testing it.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / ext / POSIX / POSIX.pod

diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
index e7166a6..124d0bd 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ variable C<$(>, see L<perlvar/$EGID>.
 
 =item getenv
 
-Returns the value of the specified enironment variable.
+Returns the value of the specified environment variable.
 The same information is available through the C<%ENV> array.
 
 =item geteuid
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ L<perlfunc/getlogin>.
 =item getpgrp
 
 This is identical to Perl's builtin C<getpgrp()> function for
-returning the prcess group identifier of the current process, see
+returning the process group identifier of the current process, see
 L<perlfunc/getpgrp>.
 
 =item getpid
@@ -848,7 +848,8 @@ FIFO special files.
        if (mkfifo($path, $mode)) { ....
 
 Returns C<undef> on failure.  The C<$mode> is similar to the
-mode of C<mkdir()>, see L<perlfunc/mkdir>.
+mode of C<mkdir()>, see L<perlfunc/mkdir>, though for C<mkfifo>
+you B<must> specify the C<$mode>.
 
 =item mktime
 
@@ -1140,6 +1141,10 @@ semantics, as defined by POSIX/SUSv3:
     code        if this is zero or less, the signal was sent by
                 a user process and the uid and pid make sense,
                 otherwise the signal was sent by the kernel
+
+The following are also defined by POSIX/SUSv3, but unfortunately
+not very widely implemented:
+
     pid         the process id generating the signal
     uid         the uid of the process id generating the signal
     status      exit value or signal for SIGCHLD
@@ -1245,7 +1250,7 @@ see L<perlre>.
 =item stat
 
 This is identical to Perl's builtin C<stat()> function
-for retutning information about files and directories.
+for returning information about files and directories.
 
 =item strcat
 
@@ -1836,6 +1841,7 @@ Get terminal control attributes.
 
 Obtain the attributes for stdin.
 
+       $termios->getattr( 0 ) # Recommended for clarity.
        $termios->getattr()
 
 Obtain the attributes for stdout.