Further clarification about safe pipe opens.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17285

diff --git a/pod/perlipc.pod b/pod/perlipc.pod
index 0adfd44..c75fa95 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlipc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlipc.pod
@@ -577,7 +577,8 @@ the syntax
 
 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.  The corresponding syntax to read from command
+pipes (with C<"|-"> in place of C<"-|">) is also implemented.
 
 Note that these operations are full Unix forks, which means they may not be
 correctly implemented on alien systems.  Additionally, these are not true