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Old 05-06-2007
perl help with pipes and file handles (simple issue)
Hello,

I have a program which opens a pipe for communication using file handle and forks 5 child processes.

Code:
@waitlist = (1,2,3,4,5);
foreach $item (@waitlist) {
        pipe *{$item},RETHAND;
        unless ($pid = fork()) {
                # Child process
                print RETHAND "Completed $item\n";
                exit(); 
         }
} 

# back to parent...
foreach $item (@waitlist) {
        $response = <$item>;
        print "$response";
}

output is..

Quote:
Completed 1
Completed 2
Completed 3
Completed 4
Completed 5
the only problem is that the child is unable to return multiple lines to the parent..

so in my child process f I have..

Quote:
print RETHAND "Completed $item \n something else here";
The output is still

Quote:
Completed 1
Completed 2
Completed 3
Completed 4
Completed 5
the "something else here" part is ignored Smilie

can someone please help me out here ? Smilie Smilie

Thanks !
# 2  
Old 05-06-2007
What about this?

Code:
@waitlist = (1,2,3,4,5);
foreach $item (@waitlist) {
        pipe *{$item},RETHAND;
        unless ($pid = fork()) {
                # Child process
                print RETHAND "Completed $item\n something else here";
                exit(); 
         }
} 
close(RETHAND);

# back to parent...
foreach $item (@waitlist) {
        @response = <$item>;
        print @response, "\n";
}

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