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diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
index 350f897..4544a09 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ to change file and directory owners and groups, see L<perlfunc/chown>.
 
 =item clearerr
 
-Use the method L<IO::Handle::clearerr()> instead, to reset the error
+Use the method C<IO::Handle::clearerr()> instead, to reset the error
 state (if any) and EOF state (if any) of the given stream.
 
 =item clock
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ argument means 'query'.)
 
 The following will set the LC_CTYPE behaviour according to the locale
 environment variables (the second argument C<"">).
-Please see your systems L<setlocale(3)> documentation for the locale
+Please see your systems C<setlocale(3)> documentation for the locale
 environment variables' meaning or consult L<perllocale>.
 
        $loc = setlocale( LC_CTYPE, "" );
@@ -1233,8 +1233,6 @@ The string for Tuesday, December 12, 1995.
        $str = POSIX::strftime( "%A, %B %d, %Y", 0, 0, 0, 12, 11, 95, 2 );
        print "$str\n";
 
-See also L<Time::Piece>.
-
 =item strlen
 
 strlen() is C-specific, use C<length()> instead, see L<perlfunc/length>.
@@ -1538,7 +1536,7 @@ see L<perlfunc/wait>.
 Wait for a child process to change state.  This is identical to Perl's
 builtin C<waitpid()> function, see L<perlfunc/waitpid>.
 
-       $pid = POSIX::waitpid( -1, &POSIX::WNOHANG );
+       $pid = POSIX::waitpid( -1, POSIX::WNOHANG );
        print "status = ", ($? / 256), "\n";
 
 =item wcstombs
@@ -1836,7 +1834,7 @@ _POSIX_ARG_MAX _POSIX_CHILD_MAX _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED _POSIX_JOB_CONTROL _POSI
 
 =item Constants
 
-_SC_ARG_MAX _SC_CHILD_MAX _SC_CLK_TCK _SC_JOB_CONTROL _SC_NGROUPS_MAX _SC_OPEN_MAX _SC_SAVED_IDS _SC_STREAM_MAX _SC_TZNAME_MAX _SC_VERSION
+_SC_ARG_MAX _SC_CHILD_MAX _SC_CLK_TCK _SC_JOB_CONTROL _SC_NGROUPS_MAX _SC_OPEN_MAX _SC_PAGESIZE _SC_SAVED_IDS _SC_STREAM_MAX _SC_TZNAME_MAX _SC_VERSION
 
 =back
 
@@ -1985,9 +1983,56 @@ R_OK SEEK_CUR SEEK_END SEEK_SET STDIN_FILENO STDOUT_FILENO STDERR_FILENO W_OK X_
 
 WNOHANG WUNTRACED
 
+=over 16
+
+=item WNOHANG
+
+Do not suspend the calling process until a child process
+changes state but instead return immediately.
+
+=item WUNTRACED
+
+Catch stopped child processes.
+
+=back
+
 =item Macros
 
 WIFEXITED WEXITSTATUS WIFSIGNALED WTERMSIG WIFSTOPPED WSTOPSIG
 
+=over 16
+
+=item WIFEXITED
+
+WIFEXITED($?) returns true if the child process exited normally
+(C<exit()> or by falling off the end of C<main()>)
+
+=item WEXITSTATUS
+
+WEXITSTATUS($?) returns the normal exit status of the child process
+(only meaningful if WIFEXITED($?) is true)
+
+=item WIFSIGNALED
+
+WIFSIGNALED($?) returns true if the child process terminated because
+of a signal
+
+=item WTERMSIG
+
+WTERMSIG($?) returns the signal the child process terminated for
+(only meaningful if WIFSIGNALED($?) is true)
+
+=item WIFSTOPPED
+
+WIFSTOPPED($?) returns true if the child process is currently stopped
+(can happen only if you specified the WUNTRACED flag to waitpid())
+
+=item WSTOPSIG
+
+WSTOPSIG($?) returns the signal the child process was stopped for
+(only meaningful if WIFSTOPPED($?) is true)
+
+=back
+
 =back