Slaven Rezic wrote: > > The following patch is somewhat shorter: Thanks, applied as 18183. > --- bleedperl/pod/perlipc.pod Mon Oct 14 23:48:53 2002 > +++ bleedperl2/pod/perlipc.pod Sat Nov 23 21:20:44 2002 > @@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ > $client->autoflush(1); > print $client "Welcome to $0; type help for command list.\n"; > $hostinfo = gethostbyaddr($client->peeraddr); > - printf "[Connect from %s]\n", $hostinfo->name || $client->peerhost; > + printf "[Connect from %s]\n", $hostinfo ? $hostinfo->name : $client->peerhost; > print $client "Command? "; > while ( <$client>) { > next unless /\S/; # blank line