on Wed, 08 May 2002 22:57:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: > I will confess I was happy to see that the CookBook version > used my pet approach of > > open(FH, "$cmd |") or die > > rather than all of this evil FORK child....
But you do realize that Perl is forking anyway, except that in this case (as with 'system' and backticks), Perl is doing the waiting on and reaping of the children for you automatically. -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
