On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:32:27AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : Yeah, good point. pipeopen maybe? (Though then that gets confused with : regular pipes) childproc?
In Perl 5 backticks actually call the "readpipe" function, which is even documented, will wonders never cease. : If it weren't so darned fundamental to the : languages we care about I'd just throw the thing into the standard library : and punt on it entirely... I don't see it as all that fundamental. It's more of a convenience function. So punt away, as far as I'm concerned. Larry
