Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 22, 2006, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmzgjmaog.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43FCC0D0.5050307@vilain.net>

Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> writes:

> Checking in Module::CoreList, that module goes right back to the Perl
> 5.0 release, so every normal Perl 5 distribution should have it.

Good digging, but IIRC this thread started because something that _claims_ to be 5.8 does not grok open(F, '-|') correctly, so...

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