[pacman-dev] [PATCHv3 6/7] pacsearch: pattern arguments work as for pacman

[Pierre Neidhardt]

On 14-02-10 12:15:03, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On 02/10/14 at 05:26pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > On 14-02-10 11:09:25, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> > > On 02/09/14 at 07:41pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > > > +open (my $syncout, '-|', 'pacman', '-Ss', @ARGV) or exit;
> > > 
> > > If we can't run pacman we need to print an error message and exit
> > > non-zero.
> > 
> > 'open' already prints an error message. Writing
> 
> So perl prints its own warning on open() failures only for pipes,
> breaking a common idiom... brilliant.  I'm tempted to disable that
> warning and print our own to get rid of the script name and line
> number, but given how unlikely it is to happen, it may not be worth
> it.  Any thoughts?  We still need to exit non-zero either way.
> 
> > +open (my $syncout, '-|', 'pacman', '-Ss', @ARGV) or die "pacman not found: $!";

I was quite surprised as well, considering that the above line comes directly
from the official documentation...

How do you disable error output from open?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

	Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills.
Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max."
	[So is that punchline.]