RE: r11190 again! 0.2808_04 will not install in Strawberry Perl 5.10.0.2...

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> Any reason I can't use something like the following on win32?
> 
>   open(my $fh, '-|', $^X, @opts, '-e', $oneliner) or die $!;
>   my $output = do {local $/; readline($fh)};

Yes, because you just would get an error:
"List form of pipe open not implemented"

Documented in perlport.pod:

    open    The "|" variants are supported only if ToolServer is installed.
            (Mac OS)

            open to "|-" and "-|" are unsupported. (Mac OS, Win32, RISC OS)

            Opening a process does not automatically flush output handles on
            some platforms. (SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX)

Cheers,
-Jan