From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:35:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <32541b130808302235g6a23efcfs78efe2ef557cd9c7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200808302237.17017.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or you can use "open $fd, '-|'" to fork, an "manually" exec/system.

Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant)
waiting to happen.  The above is the only sane way to do it, and it
isn't very hard to implement.  (Instead of system() in the subprocess,
you can use exec().)

Have fun,

Avery