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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: Re: Bash 2.04 beta 6a
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At 10:36 AM 10/30/00 +0100, Laszlo Molnar wrote:
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 >Yes, there is a good reason. The private djgpp popen in perl uses a
 >delete-on-close flag on the temp file handle - so in case of problems
 >it's automatically removed. Some times ago I suggested adding this
 >feature to the official libc - but there was no interest. So I've 
done
 >it privately because it looked useful.

Thanks, Laszlo.  Given that, I guess it is wisest to maintain the DJGPP 
version, perhaps with some enhancements (assuming we find that the "sh 
-c" is needed/wanted/doesn't break everything).

More as I get to it.
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