From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:35:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <86abetnw7l.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080830173947.GF7185@schiele.dyndns.org>

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com> writes:
Robert> -		open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;
Robert> +		open($fh, '-|', join(' ', @_)) or die;

No.  This is dangerous.

If you want 5.6 equivalent code, you'll have to use something
that deals with the explicit fork() of open($fh, '-|').

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