From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 02:31:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: "Borrow" Rafael's multiarg open descripion to perldelta,
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"Borrow" Rafael's multiarg open descripion to perldelta,
shuffle the highlights a bit (can't believe the perlio
mention was missing)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17277
---

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 17cca4b..e6a4fe3 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ Better Unicode support
 
 =item *
 
-New Thread Implementation
+New IO Implementation
 
 =item *
 
-Many New Modules
+New Thread Implementation
 
 =item *
 
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ Safe Signals
 
 =item *
 
+Many New Modules
+
+=item *
+
 More Extensive Regression Testing
 
 =back
@@ -332,6 +336,17 @@ of PerlIO on your architecture name.
 
 =item *
 
+If your platform supports fork(), you can use the list form of C<open>
+for pipes:
+
+    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.
+
+=item *
+
 File handles can be marked as accepting Perl's internal encoding of Unicode
 (UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC depending on platform) by a pseudo layer ":utf8" :