#!/usr/bin/perl use v5.14; use warnings; use Win32API::File 'FdGetOsFHandle'; my $FILE = shift or die "Need file to read\n"; say "Opening file"; open( my $in, '<', $FILE ) or die "Can't open '$FILE': $!\n"; # Get the real FD from Windows my $fd = FdGetOsFHandle( fileno($in) ); say "Spawning child process"; my $pid = system(1, 'perl', './fd_get.pl', $fd ) or die "Could not spawn child process: $!\n"; wait; #### #!/usr/bin/perl use v5.14; use warnings; use Win32API::File 'OsFHandleOpen'; my $FD = shift or die "Need file descriptor\n"; OsFHandleOpen( *IN, $FD, 'r' ) or die "Could not open file descriptor '$FD': $!\n"; while() { chomp; say "Got in child: $_"; } close IN;