sanity-check the windows section in perldelta and add some missing

entries

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17185

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 257c395..c1f08fe 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2598,13 +2598,32 @@ Windows
 
 =item *
 
-accept() no longer leaks memory. [561]
+Signal handling now works better than it used to.  It is now implemented
+using a Windows message loop, and is therefore less prone to random
+crashes.
 
 =item *
 
-Borland C++ v5.5 is now a supported compiler that can build Perl.
-However, the generated binaries continue to be incompatible with those
-generated by the other supported compilers (GCC and Visual C++). [561]
+fork() emulation is now more robust, but still continues to have a few
+esoteric bugs and caveats.  See L<perlfork> for details. [561+]
+
+=item *
+
+A failed (pseudo)fork now returns undef and sets errno to EAGAIN. [561]
+
+=item *
+
+The following modules now work on Windows:
+
+    ExtUtils::Embed         [561]
+    IO::Pipe
+    IO::Poll
+    Net::Ping
+
+=item *
+
+IO::File::new_tmpfile() is no longer limited to 32767 invocations
+per-process.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -2612,71 +2631,91 @@ Better chdir() return value for a non-existent directory.
 
 =item *
 
-Duping socket handles with open(F, ">&MYSOCK") now works under Windows
-9x. [561]
+Compiling perl using the 64-bit Platform SDK tools is now supported.
 
 =item *
 
-New %ENV entries now propagate to subprocesses. [561]
+The Win32::SetChildShowWindow() builtin can be used to control the
+visibility of windows created by child processes.  See L<Win32> for
+details.
 
 =item *
 
-Current directory entries in %ENV are now correctly propagated to child
-processes. [561]
+Non-blocking waits for child processes (or pseudo-processes) are
+supported via C<waitpid($pid, &POSIX::WNOHANG)>.
 
 =item *
 
-$ENV{LIB} now used to search for libs under Visual C.
+The behavior of system() with multiple arguments has been rationalized.
+Each unquoted argument will be automatically quoted to protect whitespace,
+and any existing whitespace in the arguments will be preserved.  This
+improves the portability of system(@args) by avoiding the need for
+Windows C<cmd> shell specific quoting in perl programs.
+
+Note that this means that some scripts that may have relied on earlier
+buggy behavior may no longer work correctly.  For example,
+C<system("nmake /nologo", @args)> will now attempt to run the file
+C<nmake /nologo> and will fail when such a file isn't found.
+On the other hand, perl will now execute code such as
+C<system("c:/Program Files/MyApp/foo.exe", @args)> correctly.
 
 =item *
 
-fork() emulation has been improved in various ways, but still continues
-to be experimental.  See L<perlfork> for known bugs and caveats. [561+]
+The perl header files no longer suppress common warnings from the
+Microsoft Visual C++ compiler.  This means that additional warnings may
+now show up when compiling XS code.
 
 =item *
 
-A failed (pseudo)fork now returns undef and sets errno to EAGAIN.
+Borland C++ v5.5 is now a supported compiler that can build Perl.
+However, the generated binaries continue to be incompatible with those
+generated by the other supported compilers (GCC and Visual C++). [561]
 
 =item *
 
-Win32::GetCwd() correctly returns C:\ instead of C: when at the drive root.
-Other bugs in chdir() and Cwd::cwd() have also been fixed. [561]
+Duping socket handles with open(F, ">&MYSOCK") now works under Windows 9x.
+[561]
 
 =item *
 
-HTML files will be installed in c:\perl\html instead of c:\perl\lib\pod\html
+Current directory entries in %ENV are now correctly propagated to child
+processes. [561]
 
 =item *
 
-The makefiles now provide a single switch to bulk-enable all the
-features enabled in ActiveState ActivePerl (a popular Win32 binary
-distribution). [561]
+New %ENV entries now propagate to subprocesses. [561]
 
 =item *
 
-Allow REG_EXPAND_SZ keys in the registry.
+Win32::GetCwd() correctly returns C:\ instead of C: when at the drive root.
+Other bugs in chdir() and Cwd::cwd() have also been fixed. [561]
 
 =item *
 
-Can now send() from all threads, not just the first one. [561]
+The makefiles now default to the features enabled in ActiveState ActivePerl
+(a popular Win32 binary distribution). [561]
 
 =item *
 
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker now uses $ENV{LIB} to search for libraries.
+HTML files will now be installed in c:\perl\html instead of
+c:\perl\lib\pod\html
 
 =item *
 
-Fake signal handling reenabled, bugs and all.
+REG_EXPAND_SZ keys are now allowed in registry settings used by perl. [561]
 
 =item *
 
-%SIG has been enabled under USE_ITHREADS, but its use is completely
-unsupported under all configurations. [561]
+Can now send() from all threads, not just the first one. [561]
+
+=item *
+
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker now uses $ENV{LIB} to search for libraries. [561]
 
 =item *
 
 Less stack reserved per thread so that more threads can run
-concurrently. (Still 16M per thread.)
+concurrently. (Still 16M per thread.) [561]
 
 =item *
 
@@ -2694,16 +2733,7 @@ under Windows 9x. [561]
 
 =item *
 
-Non-blocking waits for child processes (or pseudo-processes) are
-supported via C<waitpid($pid, &POSIX::WNOHANG)>.
-
-=item *
-
-Win64 compilation is now supported.
-
-=item *
-
-winsock handle leak fixed. [561]
+A socket handle leak in accept() has been fixed. [561]
 
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