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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: read/write pipe
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.040657.21035@convex.com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 04:06:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.023300.7836@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
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Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX
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I think that making "|foo|" be a two-way pipe would be giving the novice
enough rope to hang himself.  He would not understand why his programs
didn't work.  By the time he understands files enough to know why this
simplistic approach is so perilous, if he still wants one, he can either
cobble together his own version or pull out &open2() from the FAQ.

--tom
-- 
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
 that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn

 Tom Christiansen                tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist