#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use IPC::Open3; my $pid = open3(\*WRITE, \*READ,0, './myslave1'); #if \*ERROR is false, STDERR is sent to STDOUT while (1){ #send something to slave my $test = time; my $str = $test x 50; print WRITE "$str\n\n\n\n"; #get the answer from slave my $buf; sysread(READ,$buf,1024); print "$test = $buf\n"; sleep 1; } waitpid($pid, 1); # It is important to waitpid on your child process, # otherwise zombies could be created.