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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-18 02:31:26 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-18 02:31:26 +0000
commit5410dd158d094edee25cd2d99d4f0cb55e64f88e (patch)
tree5bd01b646a5d2be48b8ab3bbc6d68d3337bf95b4
parentea154be76668be84e2fea3198aebca72308af98c (diff)
downloadperl-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.pod19
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" :