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| author | Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> | 1997-03-06 19:19:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-03-07 04:01:12 +1200 |
| commit | eeba3357c3adf46b04bd319c3720eede609434e0 (patch) | |
| tree | bd8e2e2c64ba9753435fc38a03f46d4f4316ce2a /lib | |
| parent | a45ab7f640a570b9f6a73e51a29e6396f5854421 (diff) | |
| download | perl-eeba3357c3adf46b04bd319c3720eede609434e0.tar.gz | |
Open[23] autoflush docs
p5p-msgid: 7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/IPC/Open2.pm | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/IPC/Open3.pm | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/IPC/Open2.pm b/lib/IPC/Open2.pm index cfd15a848b..f4ae7482e2 100644 --- a/lib/IPC/Open2.pm +++ b/lib/IPC/Open2.pm @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ when you try open(HANDLE, "|cmd args|"); +The write filehandle will have autoflush turned on. + If $rdr is a string (that is, a bareword filehandle rather than a glob or a reference) and it begins with ">&", then the child will send output directly to that file handle. If $wtr is a string that begins with diff --git a/lib/IPC/Open3.pm b/lib/IPC/Open3.pm index 57c722982a..cfa8932432 100644 --- a/lib/IPC/Open3.pm +++ b/lib/IPC/Open3.pm @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling Extremely similar to open2(), open3() spawns the given $cmd and connects RDRFH for reading, WTRFH for writing, and ERRFH for errors. If ERRFH is '', or the same as RDRFH, then STDOUT and STDERR of the child are -on the same file handle. +on the same file handle. The WTRFH will have autoflush turned on. If WTRFH begins with "E<lt>&", then WTRFH will be closed in the parent, and the child will read from it directly. If RDRFH or ERRFH begins with |