Re: [Module-build-general] redirecting system() to a file, or ways to avoid it

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 10:49  AM, Uri Guttman wrote:
> make a pipe, fork, dup stdout to the pipe (in child), then in child
> multi arg exec.
>
> this is all that backticks or open "foo|" does.

Will this work on systems that don't have good fork() support?  
The perl prerequisite for Module::Build is 5.6.0, is that enough 
to guarantee fork()?

I just keep thinking that all we're doing is reading a file and 
writing a file, and I shouldn't have to fork a process for 
that.  Maybe creating an ExtUtils::ParseXS is the way to go.


  -Ken