Re: [patch] First batch of whitespace patches (ExtUtils::MakeMaker)

Ken Williams wrote:
>> What list form of backticks?
> 
> 
> Module::Build has this helper function:
> 
> sub _backticks {
>   my ($self, @cmd) = @_;
>   if ($self->have_forkpipe) {
>     local *FH;
>     my $pid = open *FH, "-|";
>     if ($pid) {
>       return wantarray ? <FH> : join '', <FH>;
>     } else {
>       die "Can't execute @cmd: $!\n" unless defined $pid;
>       exec { $cmd[0] } @cmd;
>     }
>   } else {
>     my $cmd = $self->_quote_args(@cmd);
>     return `$cmd`;
>   }
> }
> 
> sub have_forkpipe { 1 }

That's very handy, I'll probably steal it.


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