use Data::Dumper; my %child_status=(); sub reaper { my $child; while (($child=waitpid(-1,WNOHANG))>0) { warn "signal: $child\n"; $child_status{$child} = $? >> 8; } } sub copy { my $file = shift; my $dir = shift; local $SIG{CHLD} = \&reaper; my $reader_pid = open( my $reader, '-|' ); if ($reader_pid) { } else { exec 'sleep 301'; exit; } my $writer_pid; if ($writer_pid = fork()) { } else { chdir($dir); open( STDIN, "<&=" . fileno($reader) ); exec 'sleep 302'; exit; } while (1) { sleep 1; next if !%child_status; print Dumper \%child_status; warn "r $reader_pid, w $writer_pid\n"; foreach my $pid ($reader_pid, $writer_pid) { if ($child_status{$pid} != 0) { %child_status = (); die "failed tar\n"; } } if (exists $child_status{$writer_pid} && exists $child_status{$reader_pid}) { last; } } } copy("/etc/hosts",".");