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author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-18 02:31:26 +0000 |
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committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-06-18 02:31:26 +0000 |
commit | 5410dd158d094edee25cd2d99d4f0cb55e64f88e (patch) | |
tree | 5bd01b646a5d2be48b8ab3bbc6d68d3337bf95b4 | |
parent | ea154be76668be84e2fea3198aebca72308af98c (diff) | |
download | perl-5410dd158d094edee25cd2d99d4f0cb55e64f88e.tar.gz |
"Borrow" Rafael's multiarg open descripion to perldelta,
shuffle the highlights a bit (can't believe the perlio
mention was missing)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17277
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 17cca4be48..e6a4fe38d3 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ Better Unicode support =item * -New Thread Implementation +New IO Implementation =item * -Many New Modules +New Thread Implementation =item * @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ Safe Signals =item * +Many New Modules + +=item * + More Extensive Regression Testing =back @@ -332,6 +336,17 @@ of PerlIO on your architecture name. =item * +If your platform supports fork(), you can use the list form of C<open> +for pipes: + + open KID_PS, "-|", "ps", "aux" or die $!; + +forks the ps(1) command (without spawning a shell, as there are more +than three arguments to open()), and reads its standard output via the +C<KID_PS> filehandle. + +=item * + File handles can be marked as accepting Perl's internal encoding of Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC depending on platform) by a pseudo layer ":utf8" : |