Re: [FWP] Drunk driving

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

Mark-Jason Dominus writes:
|> forking doesn't work with perls that don't fork.
|I may be mistaken, but a perusal of the configuration scripts for
|early Perls suggests that *every* Perl either forks or supports
|`formline()', so that this objection is void.

I'm pretty sure there was a perl4 version of MacPerl, so it wouldn't have
formline (being perl4) and couldn't fork or pipe (being on a Mac), so the
temp file solution would be the only way to go.

Of course perl5 has formline so there's no reason I can see to do either
a fork, temp file, or "secret passage", unless you *really* want to support
older perls.

Brian

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