From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:53:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert open("-|") to qx{} calls
Message-ID: <7v1wxuhsgw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <86hd6qgit5.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> Convert all of these to use "safe_qx" (perl 5.6 compatible):
>
>     sub safe_qx {
>       defined (my $pid = open my $kid, "-|") or die "Cannot fork: $!";
>...

IIRC, that is backwards.  The thread's conversion is not about
5.6 vs 5.8.  The conversion like what you suggested above was
done, but the thing is, and Alex's Perl is unhappy about it.

The version of Perl Alex has to use claims to be 5.8, but does
not understand open($kid, '-|'), and he is trying to come up
with a workaround.

I wish Perl had a stricter trademark policy that required
language features to be fully ported for an implementation to
use that name ;-).