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Ben Tilly wrote: > On 8/22/05, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@mandriva.com> wrote: > > Ben Tilly wrote: > > > On 8/22/05, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@mandriva.com> wrote: > [...] > > > Huh, try again. > > > > Confusing. > > > > From Open2.diff : > > > > - $pid = open2(\*RDRFH, \*WTRFH, 'some cmd and args'); > > + $pid = open2(\*CHLD_IN, \*CHLD_OUT, 'some cmd and args'); > > > > I read CHLD_IN as "child's input", so surely that should be the other way > > around ? > > > > Moreover, Open3.diff has : > > > > - $pid = open3(\*WTRFH, \*RDRFH, \*ERRFH, > > + $pid = open3(\*CHLD_IN, \*CHLD_OUT, \*CHLD_ERR, > > 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...); > > > > I hereby suppose that Open2.diff is backwards. > > > Gah. I didn't mean to demonstrate how the variable names in the API > cause me confusion, but I guess I just did. :-( > > Yes, Open2.diff is backwards. OK :) thus, applied backwards as change #25320 :)Thread Previous