I am working on a new backend for my
Net::SSH::Any module which uses an external SSH client (
ssh or
plink) to connect to the remote host. Net::SSH::Any is quite flexible in terms of setting redirections for the remote program streams or capturing the data, so I have developed a layer that is able to handle that and that works on Linux/Unix... and almost on Windows!
The issue I am facing on Windows is that when I run the slave process with its STDIN stream attached to a pipe and, after writing something, I close the perl side, the slave doesn't get the EOF.
The following program shows the issue:
open my $oldin, '<&', \*STDIN or die $!;
pipe my($r), my ($w) or die $!;
open STDIN, '<&', $r or die $!;
my $pid = system 1, 'perl -ne print';
print "pid: $pid\n";
close STDIN or die $!;
open STDIN, '<&', $oldin;
close $r or die $!;
print {$w} "hello world! ($_)\n" for 0..9;
close $w or die $!;
print "waiting for slave process\n";
waitpid $pid, 0 or die $!
If you run it you will see that the program stalls waiting for the slave to finish.
I can also reproduce the issue with IPC::Open2 open2:
use IPC::Open2 qw(open2);
my $pid = open2 ">&STDOUT", my($w), 'perl -ne print' or die $!;
print "pid: $pid\n";
print {$w} "hello world! ($_)\n" for 0..9;
close $w or die $!;
print "waiting for slave process\n";
waitpid $pid, 0 or die $!
On the other hand, when a regular file is used, everything works as expected:
open my $oldin, '<&', \*STDIN or die $!;
open STDIN, '<&', \*DATA or die $!;
my $pid = system 1, 'perl -ne print';
print "pid: $pid\n";
close STDIN or die $!;
open STDIN, '<&', $oldin;
print "waiting for slave process\n";
waitpid $pid, 0 or die $!
__DATA__
hello world! (from DATA)
And creating the pipe using
open with mode
|- also works (but I don't want to do it that way because I may also need to redirect STDOUT and STDERR):
my $pid = open my $w, '|-', 'perl -ne print' or die $!;
print "pid: $pid\n";
print {$w} "hello world! ($_)\n" for 0..9;
close $w or die $!;
print "waiting for slave process\n";
waitpid $pid, 0 or die $!
Does anybody have a clue what's going on?
All that occurs to me is that the slave may be inheriting also the write side of the pipe.
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