From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:29:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't show code closing STD{IN,OUT} before reopening, because
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Don't show code closing STD{IN,OUT} before reopening, because
doing so is unnecessary and occasionally harmful.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22252
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diff --git a/pod/perlfork.pod b/pod/perlfork.pod
index 8ce0739..832710a 100644
--- a/pod/perlfork.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfork.pod
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ write to a forked child:
     else {
 	# child
 	while (<STDIN>) { print; }
-	close STDIN;
 	exit(0);
     }
 
@@ -238,7 +237,6 @@ And this one reads from the child:
     else {
 	# child
 	print "pipe_from_fork\n";
-	close STDOUT;
 	exit(0);
     }
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 32e33aa..3bd4339 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2987,9 +2987,6 @@ C<STDERR> using various methods:
     print STDOUT "stdout 1\n";	# this works for
     print STDERR "stderr 1\n"; 	# subprocesses too
 
-    close STDOUT;
-    close STDERR;
-
     open STDOUT, ">&", $oldout or die "Can't dup \$oldout: $!";
     open STDERR, ">&OLDERR"    or die "Can't dup OLDERR: $!";