From: Jan-Pieter Cornet <johnpc@xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:44:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [ID 20011207.001] documentation bug for waitpid
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[ID 20011207.001] documentation bug for waitpid
Message-Id: <200112071144.MAA12790@pc.xs4all.nl>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13511
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 2b20a4b..6d79b7a 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -6152,7 +6152,7 @@ The status is returned in C<$?>.  If you say
     #...
     do {
 	$kid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG);
-    } until $kid == -1;
+    } until $kid > 0;
 
 then you can do a non-blocking wait for all pending zombie processes.
 Non-blocking wait is available on machines supporting either the