If I add logic to the main program to exit the while loop before the subprogram has finished, the subprogram does not get terminated early.
use strict;
use warnings;
#1176332
my $cmd_1 = "perl 1176332p2.pl"; # (renamed from OP's hello.pl)
open (CMD, "$cmd_1 2>&1|") or warn ("!!! Can't run program: $!\n");
my $start = time();
printf "Started at %s\n",$start;
while (my $line = <CMD>) {
print "->" . $line;
if (time() > $start + 2) {
printf "Stopping at %d!\n",time();
last;
}
if ($line =~ m/^xyz/) {
print "\n Pretending to do some string manipulation\n";
} else {
print "(from $0): Nothing yet | ";
}
}
close CMD;
printf "Actually stopped at %d\n", time();
H:\perl>perl 1176335.pl
Started at 1479848254
->Hello World from 1176332 PART 2
(from 1176335.pl): Nothing yet | ->Sleeping 10 seconds
(from 1176335.pl): Nothing yet | ->.
(from 1176335.pl): Nothing yet | ->.
(from 1176335.pl): Nothing yet | ->.
Stopping at 1479848257!
Actually stopped at 1479848264
The main program does not return control to the command line until 7 seconds later, not until the subprogram has terminated on its own.
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