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I think the quote specifically refers to the naked pipe-self-open:

open my $fh, '-|' or die;

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which basically launches a forked copy of the current process. I don't think this has ever been implemented for Windows Perl.

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Re^4: "- |" pipe option doesn't work
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 09, 2017 at 18:13 UTC
    I think the quote specifically refers to the naked pipe-self-open:

    Ah. Okay, I never even knew *that* was a possibility. (Should have read the OP as well as your reply :)

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