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> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:33:02 -0400
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
> 
> BTW, the DJGPP perl "popen"/"pclose" wrapper/substitutes that Laszlo 
> pointed me to use system() exclusively for the command execution, both 
> for read and write pipes.  But the wrapper also uses dup/dup2 on stdout 
> (for read pipes) or stdin (for write pipes) around the calls to 
> system().

Note that popen/pclose from our libc also redirect handles with
dup/dup2 and call system() to run the subsidiary program.

> So DJGPP perl is using strictly system(), and now I need to 
> find out what perl uses elsewhere.  And maybe what a *ix popen/pclose 
> really use.

I'd expect a Unix system to do this inside popen:

    call pipe() to open a pipe
    call fork() to start the child program
    in the child-program's branch of fork, call exec("sh -c 'command-line'")
    in the parent-program's branch, read and write the pipe
    when wait() says the child exited, close the pipes and cleanup