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use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Select qw( );
use IPC::Open3 qw( open3 );
use Symbol     qw( gensym );

sub launch {
   my ($id) = @_;
   open(local *TO_CHILD, '<', '/dev/null') or die $!;
   *TO_CHILD if 0;
   my $pid = open3(
      '<&TO_CHILD',
      my $from_child = gensym(),
      '>&STDERR',
      perl => ( -e => 'use Time::HiRes qw( sleep ); $|=1; for (1..rand
+(10)+5) { sleep(0.100 + rand(100)/1000); print "a" }' ),
   );
   return { id => $id, pid => $pid, pipe => $from_child, buf => '' };
}

my %children = map { $_->{pipe} => $_ } map launch($_), 1..2;

my $sel = IO::Select->new( map $_->{pipe}, values %children );
while ($sel->count) {
   for my $fh ($sel->can_read(0.050)) {
      my $child = $children{$fh};
      our $buf; local *buf = \( $child->{buf} );

      my $rv = sysread($fh, $buf, 64*1024, length($buf));
      die $! if !defined($rv);

      if (!$rv) {
         delete $children{$fh};
         $sel->remove($fh);
         waitpid($child->{pid}, 0);
         printf("%s: Exited with %08X after receiving %s\n", $child->{
+id}, $?, $buf);
         next;
      }

      printf("%s: Received some data\n", $child->{id});
   }
}

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1: Received some data
2: Received some data
1: Received some data
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1: Received some data
2: Received some data
1: Received some data
2: Received some data
1: Received some data
1: Exited with 00000000 after receiving aaaaa
2: Received some data
2: Received some data
2: Received some data
2: Exited with 00000000 after receiving aaaaaaa

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In reply to Re: Does IO::Select work? Anywhere? by ikegami
in thread Does IO::Select work? Anywhere? by BrowserUk

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