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From:
karl williamson
Date:
April 25, 2010 11:17
Subject:
Re: Broken pod links
Message ID:
4BD48723.1070800@khwilliamson.com
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 17:47, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 17:39, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
>>> some without, like 'printf' or 'printf(3)'.  Should these even be in L<>
>>> tags?  Is there software somewhere that would link these to the real man
>>> pages?
>> Pod::Simple does. See perl5130delta for a (broken) example of this.
>> All manpages should be linked with L<foo(num)>.
> 
> Urm, perl5130delta on *search.cpan.org*[1] ...
> 
> 1. http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/perl-5.13.0/pod/perl5130delta.pod#Assignment_to_$0_sets_the_legacy_process_name_with_prctl()_on_Linux
> 

OK, but it is interesting that when I click on that link, I get
prctl
No matches for "prctl"
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