#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Glib; use IO::Pty; my $pty = IO::Pty->new; my $cmd = "top"; my $pid; unless ($pid = fork) { # child process die "problem spawning program: $!\n" unless defined $pid; use POSIX (); POSIX::setsid or die "setsid failed: $!"; my $tty = $pty->slave; my $tty_fd = $tty->fileno; open STDIN, "<&$tty_fd" or die $!; open STDOUT, ">&$tty_fd" or die $!; open STDERR, ">&STDOUT" or die $!; exec $cmd; } my $main_loop = Glib::MainLoop->new; my $watcher; $watcher = Glib::IO->add_watch( fileno( $pty ), ['in', 'hup'], \&callback); syswrite( $pty, 'l',16); syswrite( $pty, "\n",16); syswrite( $pty, 't',16); syswrite( $pty, "\n",16); syswrite( $pty, 'm',16); syswrite( $pty, "\n",16); $main_loop->run; sub callback { if ( $pty->eof ) { Gtk2::Helper->remove_watch( $watcher ); close( $pty ); } else { my $line = $pty->getline; print $line; } }