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Id: 50994
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: Proc-Simple

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: salvatore.bonaccorso [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 1.26
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Subject: POD errors in Simple.pm
Hi There are POD errors in the POD of Simple.pm: POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 178: You forgot a '=back' before '=head2' Around line 282: '=item' outside of any '=over' Around line 720: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1' The attaced patch should fix that: ----- --- a/Simple.pm +++ b/Simple.pm @@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ (like C</bin/echo>) or one of your self-defined subroutines (like C<foo()>) in a new process. -=head2 Starting External Programs +=over 8 + +=item Starting External Programs For an external program to be started, call @@ -209,7 +211,7 @@ you deliberately create confusingly named files :). For more info on this, look up C<perldoc -f exec>. -=head2 Starting Subroutines +=item Starting Subroutines If, on the other hand, you want to start a Perl subroutine in the background, simply provide the function reference like @@ -224,6 +226,8 @@ $status = $proc->start(\&printme, "hello", "world"); +=back + The I<start> Method returns immediately after starting the specified process in background, i.e. non-blocking mode. It returns I<1> if the process has been launched @@ -717,6 +721,8 @@ __END__ +=back + =head1 NOTE Please keep in mind that there is no guarantee that the SIGTERM ------ Bests Salvatore