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| author | Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> | 1997-04-25 04:55:38 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-04-27 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | 0dccf24430a5250869822117cfec215176703c7f (patch) | |
| tree | b88035f494162c30847562e5b384d07e10823adf /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | dd2afc7eca335b517bec81ce70a8a5a1c86b9c11 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0dccf24430a5250869822117cfec215176703c7f.tar.gz | |
Doc fix for close of pipe handle
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 913f6f8fbd..a99dffeb4d 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2020,12 +2020,13 @@ The following pairs are more or less equivalent: See L<perlipc/"Safe Pipe Opens"> for more examples of this. -Explicitly closing any piped filehandle causes the parent process to -wait for the child to finish, and returns the status value in C<$?>. -Note: on any operation which may do a fork, unflushed buffers remain +NOTE: On any operation which may do a fork, unflushed buffers remain unflushed in both processes, which means you may need to set C<$|> to avoid duplicate output. +Closing any piped filehandle causes the parent process to wait for the +child to finish, and returns the status value in C<$?>. + Using the constructor from the IO::Handle package (or one of its subclasses, such as IO::File or IO::Socket), you can generate anonymous filehandles which have the scope of whatever |