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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. BenThread Previous | Thread Next