use threads; use Socket qw( AF_UNIX SOCK_STREAM PF_UNSPEC ); use IO::Handle qw( ); sub _pipe { socketpair($_[0], $_[1], AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC) or return undef; shutdown($_[0], 1); # No more writing for reader shutdown($_[1], 0); # No more reading for writer return 1; } sub sockify_stdin { open(my $real_stdin, '<&', *STDIN) or die("Can't dup STDIN: $^E\n"); _pipe(*STDIN, my $stdin_w) or die("Can't create socketpair: $^E\n"); $stdin_w->autoflush(1); async { close(STDIN); # Close this threads's copy. print $stdin_w $_ while <$real_stdin>; close($stdin_w); }->detach(); close($stdin_w); # Close this threads's copy. }