in reply to Re: What happens to a '-|' (pipe) file handle across a fork()? (misfeature)
in thread What happens to a '-|' (pipe) file handle across a fork()?

Yeah, the change in Perl such that even the implicit closing of a popen-like file handle waits for the child to exit was a pretty sucky change in my book.
Agreed. Sounds like a case of Perl trying to take care of too much for the programmer. Also sounds like there should be a method like: 
$pipe->nowait(1);

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to get around this.
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