On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:12:11PM -0500, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > open APTDUMP, "$basepath/bin/apt-cache dump |" > > Perl usually discourages this form, since if someone could convince > $basepath to bstart with ">" it might do bad things.
I did it that way to be consistent with all our open/read-pipe usage. > Why not stick with this? > > open APTDUMP, "-|", "$basepath/bin/apt-cache dump"; > > Still not super (since ugly basepaths with spaces can still fail), but > a bit better and it works with both perls. True. We already know that spaces in $basepath are a hopeless case, so no loss. Maybe what we really need is to implement them all as a new Services::read_pipe_cmd(($cmd) that either returns a filehandle ready to read or prints a warning and returns an undef. That way we could use Symbol::gensym or maybe IO::* objects with intelligent scoping and do away from all those FILEHANDLE symbols. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
