From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:46:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Be explicit about the $0 pain in Linux 2.2.
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Be explicit about the $0 pain in Linux 2.2.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20012
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 43e1468..baa0d82 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -854,7 +854,8 @@ space occupied by the original C<$0>.
 In some platforms there may be arbitrary amount of padding, for
 example space characters, after the modified name as shown by C<ps>.
 In some platforms this padding may extend all the way to the original
-length of the argument area, no matter what you do.
+length of the argument area, no matter what you do (this is the case
+for example with Linux 2.2).
 
 Note for BSD users: setting C<$0> does not completely remove "perl"
 from the ps(1) output.  For example, setting C<$0> to C<"foobar"> may