I think you are reading too soon from your child process and the socket isn't readable resp. doesn't have output on it yet:

while ( my @ready = $select->can_read()) { 
  ...
};

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A quick fix could be to sleep some time before first trying to read output of the child:

sleep 2; # give time to child process
while ( my @ready = $select->can_read()) { 
  ...
};

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A better fix would most likely be to split up output reading and child checking into two parts, but checking if a child is still running/alive is hard to do unless you know on what OS you will be running:

my @children = get_child_pids(); # fake
while (@children) {
  while ( my @ready = $select->can_read()) { 
    ...
  };
  @children = get_child_pids(); # fake
  sleep 5; # let's see if the remaining children will produce output
};

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I'm punting on the check for alive children. The easiest way to check for alive children would be if you're under Linux to check for -d /proc/$child_pid, and maybe there is some way in Perl to get at the list of PIDs associated with your current PID, but I don't know it at the moment. Somebody else will chime in with that, I hope. CPAN might know too.

In reply to Re: ipc::open3 start process by Corion
in thread ipc::open3 start process by Murcia

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