[sf-perl] IPC::Open3

[David Alban]

On 9/7/07, Steve Fink <sphink at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can manually make it work:
>
>   use Symbol;
>   open3(my $wfh, my $rfh, (my $efh = Symbol::gensym), qw(...));
>
> Isn't that beautiful?

Thanks, Steve.

Amusingly enough, then, this works:

    my $efh = 1;
    my $pid = open3( my $wfh, my $rfh, $efh, qw( ls -ld foo bar ) );

we then get:

    rfh: -rw-r--r-- 1 dalban Users 0 Sep  7 11:11 foo
    efh: ls: cannot access bar: No such file or directory

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