Change 17285 by rgs@rgs-home on 2002/06/18 19:03:52
Further clarification about safe pipe opens.
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/pod/perlipc.pod#40 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlipc.pod#40 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlipc.pod
--- perl/pod/perlipc.pod#39~17276~ Mon Jun 17 15:46:28 2002
+++ perl/pod/perlipc.pod Tue Jun 18 12:03:52 2002
@@ -577,7 +577,8 @@
forks the ps(1) command (without spawning a shell, as there are more than
three arguments to open()), and reads its standard output via the
-C<KID_PS> filehandle.
+C<KID_PS> filehandle. The corresponding syntax to read from command
+pipes (with C<"|-"> in place of C<"-|">) is also implemented.
Note that these operations are full Unix forks, which means they may not be
correctly implemented on alien systems. Additionally, these are not true
End of Patch.
