From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:54:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Message-ID: <7vmzgjmaog.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <43FCC0D0.5050307@vilain.net> Sam Vilain 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...