piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (02/22/90)
In article <7123@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes:
`It could be handled by syscall, presuming you have syscall. I would consider
`adding it in if I decided that I could easily enhance the portability of
`Perl scripts by doing so--that is, if there are several ways to do it
`on different OS's and perl can present a single interface on all those
`machines. This is the primary reason I added mkdir and rmdir--some machines
`have the system call and some have to call /bin/mkdir and /bin/rmdir.
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).
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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