Eric Wong, Tue, Feb 21, 2006 21:56:18 +0100:
> > > * Eric, thanks for the hint. I have this four-patch series.
> > > Could people with perl 5.6 please check them?
> >
> > Does not work here (ActiveState Build 811, Perl 5.8.6):
> >
> > $ perl -e 'open(F, "-|")'
> > '-' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
>
> Both "-|" and "|-" forms of open() use fork() internally. Iirc, fork()
> doesn't work too well on that platform.
>
AFAICS, it does not exist. There is emulation of it in that active-perl,
though so this works:
if ( !fork ) { something }
but not "too well" (you have to be carefule not spawn too many (which
is around 50) processes. Perl'll crash otherwise).
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