From: Richard D. [SourceForge] <rd...@us...> - 2004-11-29 16:03:12
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Florian Weimer wrote: >* Richard Donkin: > > >>Does someone have a pointer to the Perl 5.8 safe pipe feature? Couldn't >>find this on Google. >> >> > >It's documented in "man perlipc". > > > Thanks - from reading http://www.perlpod.com/5.8.4/pod/perlipc.html#Safe%20Pipe%20Opens it seems that the improvement in Perl 5.8.0+ is nicer syntax for using safe pipe opens with 'open' - so we could just use a bit more code for the other cases. In fact, we would need the longer code for 5.005 to 5.6 perls anyway, so I'm not sure of the benefit of including the more concise code for 5.8. Cheers, Richard |