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From:
karl williamson
Date:
April 25, 2010 11:18
Subject:
Re: Broken pod links
Message ID:
4BD4876B.5040807@khwilliamson.com
karl williamson wrote:
> 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"
> Search Again
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Sorry for this last post, I missed your parenthesized "(broken)"

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