Document #6249 and #6251.

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diff --git a/lib/Exporter.pm b/lib/Exporter.pm
index 95076f8..9a4382f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Exporter.pm
+++ b/lib/Exporter.pm
@@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ You can say C<BEGIN { $Exporter::Verbose=1 }> to see how the
 specifications are being processed and what is actually being imported
 into modules.
 
+=head2 Constants can be inlined
+
+AUTOLOADed constants can be inlined by prefixing them with a C<+>:
+
+   use Socket qw(+AF_INET);
+
+Thusly prefixed constants are defined during the symbol import phase of
+compilation, which means that by runtime they are true inlined constants.
+
 =head2 Exporting without using Export's import method
 
 Exporter has a special method, 'export_to_level' which is used in situations

diff --git a/lib/IPC/Open3.pm b/lib/IPC/Open3.pm
index 6d91c81..facf39c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+++ b/lib/IPC/Open3.pm
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ by an autogenerated filehandle.  If so, you must pass a valid lvalue
 in the parameter slot so it can be overwritten in the caller, or 
 an exception will be raised.
 
+The filehandles may also be integers, in which case they are understood
+as file descriptors.
+
 open3() returns the process ID of the child process.  It doesn't return on
 failure: it just raises an exception matching C</^open3:/>.  However,
 C<exec> failures in the child are not detected.  You'll have to