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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: pipe (was: Re: statfs)
Message-ID: <7140@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:28:22 GMT
References: <Ea1pdg@cs.psu.edu> <7123@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <2507@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2507@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
: This sounds like a good reason to supply a pipe command. You can't do this
: with syscall, on some machines you can get away with socketpair, but if you
: don't have that, you are lost. Suggested syntax:
: pipe (HANDLE1, HANDLE2).

Er, it's already in patch 9, oddly enough.

Larry