From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:37:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: open "list form" clarification.
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open "list form" clarification.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17142
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 3f4d676..cbd58c8 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2953,7 +2953,9 @@ The following triples are more or less equivalent:
     open(FOO, '-|', "cat", '-n', $file);
 
 The last example in each block shows the pipe as "list form", which is
-not yet supported on all platforms.
+not yet supported on all platforms.  A good rule of thumb is that if
+your platform has true C<fork()> (in other words, if your platform is
+UNIX) you can use the list form.
 
 See L<perlipc/"Safe Pipe Opens"> for more examples of this.