From: Shawn Pearce Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:38:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Message-ID: <20060221223808.GC20744@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Maybe I am stating the obvious, but it seems that > > open (F, "git-blabla -option |"); > > would be more portable. Yes but that gets broken up and processed according to your shell. Which could be ugly if you try to include shell meta-characters. On the other hand if the entire string passed to open is a constant in the script then there's really no danger and it would be more portable. > P.S.: Eric, we rely on fork() anyway. Most of git's programs just don't > work without a fork(). Which is why GIT requires Cygwin on Windows. So why not use the Cygwin perl when using GIT? I think that uses Cygwin's fork emulation to implement fork, rather than the ActiveState emulation of fork. Of course fork on Cygwin is painfully slow. :-| -- Shawn.