Changes for version 0.79 - 2005-01-19

  • New maintainer: Richard Soderberg <rsod@cpan.org>
  • Resolved several RT tickets
    • 4934, 8263, 8060, 8400, 8624, 5870, 4658, 8940, 1474, 4311
  • Skip certain tests on AIX and OpenBSD as they deadlock otherwise
  • Applied AIX patch from ActiveState (#8263)
  • Fixed t/run.t on OS X (#8940)
  • Add check for EINTR to _read (#5870)
  • FreeBSD uses fds up to 4 by default, fixed tests to start at 5 (#8060)

Modules

system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys (Unix, Win32)
debugging routines for IPC::Run
I/O channels for IPC::Run.
Timer channels for IPC::Run.
helper routines for IPC::Run on Win32 platforms.
helper routines for IPC::Run on Win32 platforms.
helper processes to shovel data to/from parent, child