Re^5: Background process with perl and lighttpd

Thx alot, this helped!

What is this for?

unless (open F, "-|") {
  open STDERR, ">&=1";
}
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Re^6: Background process with perl and lighttpd by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2010 at 15:28 UTC
We'll do this with a pipe-open which includes an implicit fork, in line 37. The grandchild process merges STDERR to STDOUT, and then executes traceroute, passing it the validated host parameter from before. Also, perldoc -f open	[reply]