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diff --git a/utils/perldoc.PL b/utils/perldoc.PL
index 3583166..76caaab 100644
--- a/utils/perldoc.PL
+++ b/utils/perldoc.PL
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ my \@pagers = ();
 push \@pagers, \$pager if -x \$pager;
 
 (my \$bindir = <<'/../') =~ s/\\s*\\z//;
-$Config{installscript}
+$Config{scriptdirexp}
 /../
 
 (my \$pod2man = <<'/../') =~ s/\\s*\\z//;
@@ -123,9 +123,8 @@ Options:
 PageName|ModuleName...
          is the name of a piece of documentation that you want to look at. You
          may either give a descriptive name of the page (as in the case of
-         `perlfunc') the name of a module, either like `Term::Info',
-         `Term/Info', the partial name of a module, like `info', or
-         `makemaker', or the name of a program, like `perldoc'.
+         `perlfunc') the name of a module, either like `Term::Info' or like
+         `Term/Info', or the name of a program, like `perldoc'.
 
 BuiltinFunction
          is the name of a perl function.  Will extract documentation from
@@ -169,9 +168,29 @@ if (!($Is_VMS || $Is_MSWin32 || $Is_Dos || $Is_OS2) && ($> == 0 || $< == 0)
         my $id = eval { getpwnam("nobody") };
            $id = eval { getpwnam("nouser") } unless defined $id;
            $id = -2 unless defined $id;
+	#
+	# According to Stevens' APUE and various
+	# (BSD, Solaris, HP-UX) man pages setting
+	# the real uid first and effective uid second
+	# is the way to go if one wants to drop privileges,
+	# because if one changes into an effective uid of
+	# non-zero, one cannot change the real uid any more.
+	#
+	# Actually, it gets even messier.  There is
+	# a third uid, called the saved uid, and as
+	# long as that is zero, one can get back to
+	# uid of zero.  Setting the real-effective *twice*
+	# helps in *most* systems (FreeBSD and Solaris)
+	# but apparently in HP-UX even this doesn't help:
+	# the saved uid stays zero (apparently the only way
+	# in HP-UX to change saved uid is to call setuid()
+	# when the effective uid is zero).
+	#
         eval {
-            $> = $id;  # must do this one first!
-            $< = $id;
+            $< = $id; # real uid
+            $> = $id; # effective uid
+            $< = $id; # real uid
+            $> = $id; # effective uid
         };
         last if !$@ && $< && $>;
     }
@@ -322,7 +341,7 @@ sub searchfor {
     for ($i=0; $i<@dirs; $i++) {
 	$dir = $dirs[$i];
 	($dir = VMS::Filespec::unixpath($dir)) =~ s!/\z!! if $Is_VMS;
-	if (       ( $ret = check_file $dir,"$s.pod")
+	if (       (! $opt_m && ( $ret = check_file $dir,"$s.pod"))
 		or ( $ret = check_file $dir,"$s.pm")
 		or ( $ret = check_file $dir,$s)
 		or ( $Is_VMS and
@@ -438,7 +457,8 @@ foreach (@pages) {
 	    print STDERR "Loosely found as @files\n" if $opt_v;
 	}
 	else {
-	    print STDERR "No documentation found for \"$_\".\n";
+	    print STDERR "No " .
+		($opt_m ? "module" : "documentation") . " found for \"$_\".\n";
 	    if (@global_found) {
 		print STDERR "However, try\n";
 		for my $dir (@global_found) {
@@ -568,7 +588,7 @@ EOD
 	    $found = 1;
 	    push @pod, "=head1 Found in $ARGV\n\n" unless $found_in{$ARGV}++;
 	}
-	elsif (/^=head2/) {
+	elsif (/^=head[12]/) {
 	    $found = 0;
 	}
 	next unless $found;
@@ -670,6 +690,9 @@ the perl library modules.
 Your system may also have man pages installed for those modules, in
 which case you can probably just use the man(1) command.
 
+If you are looking for a table of contents to the Perl library modules
+documentation, see the L<perltoc> page.
+
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
 =over 5
@@ -736,10 +759,7 @@ run.
 
 The item you want to look up.  Nested modules (such as C<File::Basename>)
 are specified either as C<File::Basename> or C<File/Basename>.  You may also
-give a descriptive name of a page, such as C<perlfunc>. You may also give a
-partial or wrong-case name, such as "basename" for "File::Basename", but
-this will be slower, if there is more then one page with the same partial
-name, you will only get the first one.
+give a descriptive name of a page, such as C<perlfunc>.
 
 =back