Tried as you suggested, and there was no change at all :/

C:\>test.pl 1 ### Running a perl script ### 0s : Thread 0 - > Creating threads 0s : Thread 1 - Created 0s : Thread 2 - Created 0s : Thread 3 - Created 1s : Thread 0 - All Threads created 1s : Thread 0 - > Waiting for input now. All threads should finish now + without pressing enter 3s : Thread 1 - Starting 'perl -le "print \"hello world\""' 3s : Thread 2 - Starting 'perl -le "print \"hello world\""' 3s : Thread 3 - Starting 'perl -le "print \"hello world\""' 17s : Thread 0 - > Input received, all done 17s : Thread 2 - Finished the command: hello world 17s : Thread 3 - Finished the command: hello world 17s : Thread 1 - Finished the command: hello world 17s : Thread 0 - All Threads joined

In reply to Re^4: Running a perl script as a system command in another thread hangs while main thread reading from STDIN by rmahin
in thread Running a perl script as a system command in another thread hangs while main thread reading from STDIN by rmahin

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