This allows the programmer to look at the execution stack and variables to
find out the cause of the exception. As the debugger is being invoked as
the Perl interpreter is about to do a fatal exit, continuing the execution
-in debug mode is usally not practical.
+in debug mode is usually not practical.
Starting Perl in the VMS debugger may change the program execution
profile in a way that such problems are not reproduced.
See L</"$?"> for a description of the encoding of the Unix value to
produce a native VMS status containing it.
-
=item dump
Rather than causing Perl to abort and dump core, the C<dump>
there is no difference between "user time" and "system" time
under VMS, and the time accumulated by a subprocess may or may
not appear separately in the "child time" field, depending on
-whether L<times> keeps track of subprocesses separately. Note
+whether C<times()> keeps track of subprocesses separately. Note
especially that the VAXCRTL (at least) keeps track only of
-subprocesses spawned using L<fork> and L<exec>; it will not
-accumulate the times of subprocesses spawned via pipes, L<system>,
+subprocesses spawned using C<fork()> and C<exec()>; it will not
+accumulate the times of subprocesses spawned via pipes, C<system()>,
or backticks.
=item unlink LIST