On Fri, 5 May 2000, Thierry-Michel Barral wrote:
> I have another question, no connection from the previous one:
>
> I believe using
>
> open FH "<tweety.conf";
>
> is in fact a call to the shell. Right ?
no! but open FH, "cal|"; would result in a fork/subprocess. see the
perldocs, this is not any different under mod_perl.
> So, in mod_perl, I prefer not to call the shell, so is
>
> $fh= new IO::File($filename, "r");
>
> a better solution ?
no! that calls the builtin open() underneath, so it's no different in
the end, other than the extra layers to get there.
