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If your platform supports fork(), you can use the list form of C<open>
-for pipes:
+for pipes. For example:
open KID_PS, "-|", "ps", "aux" or die $!;
forks the ps(1) command (without spawning a shell, as there are more
than three arguments to open()), and reads its standard output via the
-C<KID_PS> filehandle.
+C<KID_PS> filehandle. See L<perlipc>.
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