Pod nit ([perl #32800])

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlipc.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlipc.pod b/pod/perlipc.pod
index c25eb87..76dcfed 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlipc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlipc.pod
@@ -355,11 +355,16 @@ with your timeouts.  If you are having problems with such functions,
 you can try using the POSIX sigaction() function, which bypasses the
 Perl safe signals (note that this means subjecting yourself to
 possible memory corruption, as described above).  Instead of setting
-C<$SIG{ALRM}> try something like the following:
+C<$SIG{ALRM}>:
 
-    use POSIX;
-    sigaction SIGALRM, new POSIX::SigAction sub { die "alarm\n" }
-        or die "Error setting SIGALRM handler: $!\n";
+   local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm" };
+
+try something like the following:
+
+    use POSIX qw(SIGALRM);
+    POSIX::sigaction(SIGALRM,
+                     POSIX::SigAction->new(sub { die "alarm" }))
+          or die "Error setting SIGALRM handler: $!\n";
 
 =item Restartable system calls
 
@@ -388,7 +393,7 @@ will generate the signal again. The result of this is a rather odd
 "loop". In future Perl's signal mechanism may be changed to avoid this
 - perhaps by simply disallowing %SIG handlers on signals of that
 type. Until then the work-round is not to set a %SIG handler on those
-signals. (Which signals they are is operating system dependant.)
+signals. (Which signals they are is operating system dependent.)
 
 =item Signals triggered by operating system state
 
@@ -1610,7 +1615,7 @@ A small example demonstrating SysV message queues:
     my $id = msgget(IPC_PRIVATE, IPC_CREAT | S_IRWXU);
 
     my $sent = "message";
-    my $type = 1234;
+    my $type_sent = 1234;
     my $rcvd;
     my $type_rcvd;
 
@@ -1658,15 +1663,6 @@ signals and to stick with simple TCP and UDP socket operations; e.g., don't
 try to pass open file descriptors over a local UDP datagram socket if you
 want your code to stand a chance of being portable.
 
-As mentioned in the signals section, because few vendors provide C
-libraries that are safely re-entrant, the prudent programmer will do
-little else within a handler beyond setting a numeric variable that
-already exists; or, if locked into a slow (restarting) system call,
-using die() to raise an exception and longjmp(3) out.  In fact, even
-these may in some cases cause a core dump.  It's probably best to avoid
-signals except where they are absolutely inevitable.  This
-will be addressed in a future release of Perl.
-
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Tom Christiansen, with occasional vestiges of Larry Wall's original