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Arguments are passed to the child via a variant of the exec system call, which only accepts strings.

That's where I thought the pipes where involved - to read the output of the exec'ed command, perl has to open a pipe to it, which I thought would replace the exec call altogether. But my C fu is rusty to inexistent...

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Re^4: Passing array pointer through script input
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 21, 2008 at 22:14 UTC
    The problem is with the arguments, not the output.
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