if (!open(COPY,'>',$copyfile)) #open the file for writting before we s
+tart reading from it
{ 
    $cf_status = 0;
    open(COPY,'>&STDOUT');
};
my $pid;
if ($pid = fork)
{
  redirect_to_file(); #redirect output to the COPY file
  .
  .
  .
  open( OLDOUT, ">&STDOUT" ) or ...;
  open( OLDERR, ">&STDERR" ) or ...;

  # redirect everything to a capture file; fail if it already exists
  if ( !sysopen( STDOUT, $outFile, O_WRONLY|O_EXCL|O_CREAT ) ) { ... }
  open( STDERR, ">& STDOUT" ) or ...;
  select(STDERR); $| = 1;     # make unbuffered
  select(STDOUT); $| = 1;
  binmode( STDOUT );          # don't interpret CRLF/Unicode
  binmode( STDERR );
  system('command');
  open( STDOUT, ">&OLDOUT" ) or ...;
  open( STDERR, ">&OLDERR" ) or ...;
  close( OLDOUT ) or ...;
  close( OLDERR ) or ...;

  end_redirection(); 

  waitpid($pid,0); # wait for child process to finish reading and to e
+xit
}
else
{
  die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid;
  .
  . #reads from COPY file
  .
}
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edited: Thu Jun 26 15:10:13 2003 by jeffa - code tags