perlunifaq, uniintro: fix for 80 col display

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

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index febf15f..ed90610 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1026,6 +1026,13 @@ have their own copies of it.
 If the program has been given to perl via the switches C<-e> or C<-E>,
 C<$0> will contain the string C<"-e">.
 
+On Linux as of perl 5.14 the legacy process name will be set with
+L<prctl(2)>, in addition to altering the POSIX name via C<argv[0]> as
+perl has done since version 4.000. Now system utilities that read the
+legacy process name such as ps, top and killall will recognize the
+name you set when assigning to C<$0>. The string you supply will be
+cut off at 16 bytes, this is a limitation imposed by Linux.
+
 =item $[
 X<$[>
 
@@ -1368,6 +1375,7 @@ The current set of warning checks enabled by the C<use warnings> pragma.
 See the documentation of C<warnings> for more details.
 
 =item ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}
+X<sitecustomize> X<sitecustomize.pl>
 
 If this variable is set to a true value, then stat() on Windows will
 not try to open the file. This means that the link count cannot be
@@ -1377,7 +1385,8 @@ is considerably faster, especially for files on network drives.
 
 This variable could be set in the F<sitecustomize.pl> file to
 configure the local Perl installation to use "sloppy" stat() by
-default.  See L<perlrun> for more information about site
+default.  See the documentation for B<-f> in
+L<perlrun|perlrun/"Command Switches"> for more information about site
 customization.
 
 =item $EXECUTABLE_NAME