From 508c1ff603f9bbfcf34bc663c9f028d6acf1f6e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Cook Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:31:11 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] perldelta for e9d373c4 --- pod/perldelta.pod | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index e3563ea..f0d4886 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -610,6 +610,14 @@ interaction with the L CPAN module. This was partially fixed in Perl 5.19.4, but the fix was not sufficient and another fault has now been corrected. +=item * + +In some cases, closing file handled opened to pipe to or from a process, which +had been duplicated into a standard handle, would call perl's internal waitpid +wrapper with a pid of zero. With the fix for [perl #85228] this zero pid was +passed to waitpid(), possibly blocking the process. This wait for process +zero no longer occurs. [perl #119893] + =back =head1 Known Problems -- 2.7.4