From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 23:28:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Elaborate on the exit/wait plan a bit.
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Elaborate on the exit/wait plan a bit.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16567
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 0079cd7..83f988f 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -114,8 +114,21 @@ class subtraction.
 
 =head2 Work out exit/die semantics for threads
 
-There are some suggestion for use a 
-C<use threads wait => x> syntax.
+There are some suggestions to use for example something like this:
+default to "(thread exiting first will) wait for the other threads
+until up to 60 seconds".  Other possibilities:
+
+    use threads wait => 0;
+
+Do not wait.
+
+    use threads wait_for => 10;
+
+Wait up to 10 seconds.
+
+    use threads wait_for => -1;
+
+Wait for ever.
 
 http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg79618.html
 
@@ -177,7 +190,7 @@ C<[1234567890]> aren't the only numerals any more.
 
 =head2 POSIX Unicode character classes
 
-(C<[=a=]> for equivalance classes, C<[.ch.]> for collation.)
+(C<[=a=]> for equivalence classes, C<[.ch.]> for collation.)
 These are dependent on Unicode normalization and collation.
 
 =head2 Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
@@ -244,7 +257,7 @@ C<&>, C<oct>, C<hex> and C<pack>.
 =head2 Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
 
 The CPAN module C<Marek::Pod::Html> may be a more suitable basis for a
-C<pod2html> convertor; the current one duplicates the functionality
+C<pod2html> converter; the current one duplicates the functionality
 abstracted in C<Pod::Parser>, which makes updating the POD language
 difficult.