Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:07:19PM -0800, Yitzchak
> Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>
> > So something like:
> >
> > my $pid = open(REALPATH, "-|");
> > if (! $pid) {
> > exec('/usr/bin/fullpath', '-t', $path) if defined $pid;
> > die "Can't open /usr/bin/fullpath: $!";
> > }
>
> Except that after a failed exec you should ideally be doing
> POSIX::_exit() if it's available, to avoid double flushing IO buffers.Is this documented somewhere? If not should it be? Yves
