[PATCH] perlfunc return-value addition for chroot(), etc.

My brother was confused due to chroot()'s return status being opposite
of the system call's, so I added

  Returns true upon success, otherwise returns false and sets C<$!> (errno).

to the doc. A quick scan of the code showed two other similar situations.
Patch appended.
        Jeffrey


--- .orig/pod/perlfunc.pod	Tue Jul 17 02:08:25 2001
+++ pod/perlfunc.pod	Sun Jul 29 22:14:58 2001
@@ -702,4 +702,5 @@
 reasons, this call is restricted to the superuser.  If FILENAME is
 omitted, does a C<chroot> to C<$_>.
+Returns true upon success, otherwise returns false and sets C<$!> (errno).
 
 =item close FILEHANDLE
@@ -4103,4 +4104,5 @@
 accept any arguments, so only C<setpgrp(0,0)> is portable.  See also
 C<POSIX::setsid()>.
+Returns true upon success, otherwise returns false and sets C<$!> (errno).
 
 =item setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY
@@ -4109,4 +4111,5 @@
 (See setpriority(2).)  Will produce a fatal error if used on a machine
 that doesn't implement setpriority(2).
+Returns true upon success, otherwise returns false and sets C<$!> (errno).
 
 =item setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL

• [PATCH] perlfunc return-value addition for chroot(), etc. by Jeffrey Friedl
• RE: [PATCH] perlfunc return-value addition for chroot(), etc. by McGrath, Doug
• Re: [PATCH] perlfunc return-value addition for chroot(), etc. by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [PATCH] perlfunc return-value addition for chroot(), etc. by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [PATCH] perlfunc return-value addition for chroot(), etc. by Jeffrey Friedl