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calls are not affected by localizing a filehandle in Perl and will continue
to send output to the original filehandles (which will thus not be captured).

B<Scalar filehandles>

If STDOUT or STDERR are reopened to scalar filehandles prior to the call to
C<<< capture >>> or C<<< tee >>>, then Capture::Tiny will override the output filehandle for
the duration of the C<<< capture >>> or C<<< tee >>> call and then, for C<<< tee >>>, send captured
output to the output filehandle after the capture is complete.  (Requires Perl
5.8)

Capture::Tiny attempts to preserve the semantics of STDIN opened to a scalar
reference, but note that external processes will not be able to read from such
a handle.  Capture::Tiny tries to ensure that external processes will read from
the null device instead, but this is not guaranteed.

B<Tied output filehandles>

If STDOUT or STDERR are tied prior to the call to C<<< capture >>> or C<<< tee >>>, then
Capture::Tiny will attempt to override the tie for the duration of the
C<<< capture >>> or C<<< tee >>> call and then send captured output to the tied filehandle after
the capture is complete.  (Requires Perl 5.8)

Capture::Tiny may not succeed resending UTF-8 encoded data to a tied
STDOUT or STDERR filehandle.  Characters may appear as bytes.  If the tied filehandle
is based on L<Tie::StdHandle>, then Capture::Tiny will attempt to determine
appropriate layers like C<<< :utf8 >>> from the underlying filehandle and do the right
thing.

B<Tied input filehandle>

Capture::Tiny attempts to preserve the semantics of tied STDIN, but this
requires Perl 5.8 and is not entirely predictable.  External processes
will not be able to read from such a handle.

Unless having STDIN tied is crucial, it may be safest to localize STDIN when
capturing:

   my ($out, $err) = do { local *STDIN; capture { ... } };

=head2 Modifying filehandles during a capture

Attempting to modify STDIN, STDOUT or STDERR I<during> C<<< capture >>> or C<<< tee >>> is
almost certainly going to cause problems.  Don't do that.

=head2 No support for Perl 5.8.0

It's just too buggy when it comes to layers and UTF-8.  Perl 5.8.1 or later
is recommended.

=head2 Limited support for Perl 5.6

Perl 5.6 predates PerlIO.  UTF-8 data may not be captured correctly.

=head1 ENVIRONMENT

=head2 PERL_CAPTURE_TINY_TIMEOUT

Capture::Tiny uses subprocesses for C<<< tee >>>.  By default, Capture::Tiny will
timeout with an error if the subprocesses are not ready to receive data within
30 seconds (or whatever is the value of C<<< $Capture::Tiny::TIMEOUT >>>).  An
alternate timeout may be specified by setting the C<<< PERL_CAPTURE_TINY_TIMEOUT >>>
environment variable.  Setting it to zero will disable timeouts.

=head1 SEE ALSO

This module was, inspired by L<IO::CaptureOutput>, which provides
similar functionality without the ability to tee output and with more
complicated code and API.  L<IO::CaptureOutput> does not handle layers
or most of the unusual cases described in the L</Limitations> section and
I no longer recommend it.

There are many other CPAN modules that provide some sort of output capture,
albeit with various limitations that make them appropriate only in particular
circumstances.  I'm probably missing some.  The long list is provided to show
why I felt Capture::Tiny was necessary.

=over

=item *

L<IO::Capture>

=item *

L<IO::Capture::Extended>

=item *

L<IO::CaptureOutput>

=item *

L<IPC::Capture>

=item *

L<IPC::Cmd>

=item *

L<IPC::Open2>

=item *

L<IPC::Open3>

=item *

L<IPC::Open3::Simple>

=item *

L<IPC::Open3::Utils>

=item *

L<IPC::Run>

=item *

L<IPC::Run::SafeHandles>

=item *

L<IPC::Run::Simple>

=item *

L<IPC::Run3>