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Re: Seek in IPC::Open2 modules handleby ikegami (Patriarch) |
on May 20, 2009 at 14:36 UTC ( [id://765241]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
If you liken the file handle contents to words, a file is like a book (you can seek through it) while a pipe is like an oral conversation. Unless you happen to record it, you can't rewind it. You definitely can't skip forward.
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