On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:27:13AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >It seems that this issue is definitely worth a quick RFC - something > >like "proposal to return filehandles from open/opendir rather than supply > >as arguments". > > What about the pids that come back from begotten processes, as in > > open(FILTER, "| cat -v | sort | lpr") > or > open(MESELF, "|-") The suggestion was the open() return a filehandle object, so may I suggest $fh = open("| cat -v | sort | lpr") or die ....; $pid = $fh->pid; Graham.
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tim Jenness
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Larry Wall
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tim Jenness
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Graham Barr
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Graham Barr
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Glenn Linderman
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Tom Christiansen
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Ted Ashton
- Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation Johan Vromans