Turn $$ into a magical readonly variable that always fetches getpid() instead of...

[perl5.git] / pp_sys.c

diff --git a/pp_sys.c b/pp_sys.c
index 186465f..aa74cef 100644 (file)
--- a/pp_sys.c
+++ b/pp_sys.c
@@ -4017,12 +4017,6 @@ PP(pp_fork)
     if (childpid < 0)
        RETSETUNDEF;
     if (!childpid) {
-       GV * const tmpgv = gv_fetchpvs("$", GV_ADD|GV_NOTQUAL, SVt_PV);
-       if (tmpgv) {
-            SvREADONLY_off(GvSV(tmpgv));
-           sv_setiv(GvSV(tmpgv), (IV)PerlProc_getpid());
-            SvREADONLY_on(GvSV(tmpgv));
-        }
 #ifdef THREADS_HAVE_PIDS
        PL_ppid = (IV)getppid();
 #endif