Hi, On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Alex Riesen wrote: > Sam Vilain, Tue, Feb 21, 2006 21:36:50 +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. > > > > Portability, Ease of Coding, Few CPAN Module Dependencies. Pick any two. > > > > Sometimes an upgrade is just out of question. Besides, that'd mean an > upgrade to another operating system, because very important scripts > over here a just not portable to anything else but > "ActiveState Perl on Windows (TM)" > I just have no choice. Maybe I am stating the obvious, but it seems that open (F, "git-blabla -option |"); would be more portable. Alex, would this work on ActiveState? Perl gurus, is the latter way to open a pipe considered awful or what? Ciao, Dscho P.S.: Eric, we rely on fork() anyway. Most of git's programs just don't work without a fork(). - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html