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Changes for version 0.62 - 2002-01-01

  • Have all children close all file descriptors opened by the parent harness, otherwise children of different harnesses can unwittingly keep open fds the parent closes, thus preventing other children from seeing them close. Reported by Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>.

Modules

system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
I/O channels for IPC::Run.
Timer channels for IPC::Run.
helper routines for IPC::Run on Win32 platforms.