Allow ordinary scalar for 'pipe' [rt.cpan.org #83000]

[toddr]

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Migrated from rt.cpan.org#83000 (status was 'new')

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• [email protected]

From [email protected] on 2013-01-28 11:28:12:

In recent perl versions you can use an ordinary scalar in open(), as:

  open my $fh, '<', 'file' or die;

You no longer have to use bareword filehandles or get involved with the details of taking glob references *FH.

It would be good if the 'pipe' mode of IPC::Run allowed the same convenience:

  my $child_out;
  start \@cmd, '<', '/dev/null', '>pipe', \$child_out, '2>', '/dev/null';

At the moment this gives 'Not a GLOB reference' from inside IPC::Run::IO.

[epa]

Thanks - this was me

[toddr]

I'm all for this but it's an enhancement and I'm not actively developing on IPC::Run at this time. Patches welcome.