Re: Re: once again: program output and return code

This worked for me but I had to duplicate STDIN as well as the other two, pass the dup to open3 and close it afterwards if I wanted to call the subroutine with the open3 call more than once, else:

  Carp::croak('open3: close(main::STDIN) failed: Bad file number') cal
+led at .../IPC/Open3.pm line 119
  IPC::Open3::xclose('main::STDIN') called at .../IPC/Open3.pm line 23
+8
  IPC::Open3::_open3('open3', 'main', '<&STDIN', 'GLOB(0xa8c04)', 'GLO
+B(0xa8c88)', 'pmem 2914') called at .../IPC/Open3.pm line 249
  IPC::Open3::open3('<&STDIN', 'GLOB(0xa8c04)', 'GLOB(0xa8c88)', 'pmem
+ 2914') called at ...
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(IPC::Run) Re^3: once again: program output and return code by particle (Vicar) on Apr 18, 2003 at 17:26 UTC
you might find IPC::Run and IPC::Run3 of use. they make ipc much easier than the open* modules. ~Particle accelerates	[reply] [d/l]