Re^6: Variable triggers global destruction hang

[ig]

I'm confused. The two cases I see in the original post are:

    open FH , "| cat " ;
    open STDOUT, ">&FH";

and

    my $foo = qr(a);
    open FH , "| cat " ;
    open STDOUT, ">&FH";

FH is duplicated to STDOUT in both cases.

And, saintmike said:

Just verified: With an old perl-5.8 I get the different behavior with/without the variable, with perl-5.10 it hangs regardless.

I took this to mean that with 5.10 it hangs waiting for the sub-process to terminate.

[ikegami]

What makes you think that a reply to Re^3: Variable triggers global destruction hang answers a question in Variable triggers global destruction hang when Re^3: Variable triggers global destruction hang asks a different question?

[ig]

My mistake - I didn't notice that the cases had changed.

Sorry for the confusion.