Update manual page to reflect changes in rev 1.12 of

"src/lib/libc/gen/popen.c" --- popen() in the child
now closes any copies of popen()'ed descriptors in the parent.
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jkoshy 1998-11-06 07:09:22 +00:00
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@ -53,16 +53,19 @@ function
a process by creating a bidirectional pipe
forking,
and invoking the shell.
Any streams opened by previous
.Fn popen
calls in the parent process are closed in the new child process.
Historically,
.Nm popen
.Fn popen
was implemented with a unidirectional pipe;
hence many implementations of
.Nm popen
.Fn popen
only allow the
.Fa type
argument to specify reading or writing, not both.
Since
.Nm popen
.Nm
is now implemented using a bidirectional pipe, the
.Fa type
argument may request a bidirectional data flow.