Re: Newbie: Tough times with sfio

[Doug MacEachern]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, hamid khoshnevis wrote:

> Hello,
> I am a newbie modperl'er and I am tyring to get system calls to return data 
> to modperl (via stdout).  Based on what I have read, sfio need to be linked 
> in.  Has anyone successfully done so and does stdout gets directed properly.

you can use:
print `command`;
instead of system "command";

but you're throwing performance out the window either way.  best not to
fork at all if you can avoid it.