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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:42:54 +0200
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Avery Pennarun, Sun, Aug 31, 2008 07:35:31 +0200:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or you can use "open $fd, '-|'" to fork, an "manually" exec/system.
> 
> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant)
> waiting to happen.  The above is the only sane way to do it, and it
> isn't very hard to implement. ...

except on Windows, where it is impossible to implement.