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Can anyone give me a hint as to why it doesn't work on Windows?

Pipes are files handles and select doesn't work for filehandles on Windows.

See Win32::SocketPair winopen2() and winopen2_5() for a workaround that redirects the output via sockets in order to alleviate the restriction.

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