Re: IPC::BashEm

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:14:39AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > if you want both standard output and error redirected/collected
> > in the calling program.
> 
> or stdin + stderr :-).
> 
> or if you want to deal with fds > 2 (or, if for some twisted reason
> you want use stdout as an input, say).
> 
> Basically, I'd like it to be usable wherever qx// or system() doesn't
> quit cut it.  I'm planning a non-event loop API as well, so that it's
> more scriptable, but that's not here yet.  I may need/want to go OO
> with that, or maybe not.  I'm also thinking about some level of integration
> with Event.pm, FWIW, esp. if it becomes "the one true event loop" mechanism
> in the std. dist.

Heh.  I was threatening to integrate Event with Open3 a few weeks ago
but I never got started.  Obviously, such an addition would be welcome
and really cool.

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