Changes for version 0.09 - 2008-05-12
- Test suite now provides better diagnostics if taint tests fail unexpectedly early.
- Multi-argument run() will now search $ENV{PATH} under Win32.
- Documented $ENV{PATH} foibles on Win32 systems under the Windows-specific notes section of the documentation.
- Implemented capture(), which is the equivalent of run() for backticks.
- General documentation improvements and clarifications, thanks to Jacinta Richardson.
- The special value EXIT_ANY (aka [-1]) can be used to indicate that any exit value is acceptable from a process.
- Added author-only Perl::Critic tests.
- Updated diagnostics section in POD.
- License changed to that of Perl 5.6.0, or any later version.
- LICENSE file added to distribution.
- Moved to Module::Install for build system.
- Better failures when seeing unexpected things from POSIX.pm
- Support for detecting core-dumps added.
- All failure messages now use double-quotes when quoting variable sections.
- Diagnostics documentation rearraged to have most common errors listed first.
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