Ok, I have tried to use Open2 to solve my previous post Win32::Process and Sockets question, and here is what I have so far. It works on my unix solaris workstation with perl 5.004_04 but doesn't work on windows on perl 5.6.0. What I mean by doesn't work is the child process never sees anything on the handle "STDIN". It just immediately prints "child done". Anyone have any idea?
Here is the first file: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use IPC::Open2;

#$| = 1;

open2(\*IN, \*OUT, "f2.pl"); 

print OUT "proclist\n";
print OUT "quit\n";

while ($line = <IN>) {
   print "parent:$line";
}
close IN;
print "parent done\n";
close OUT;

exit;

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and here is the second file called f2.pl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use IPC::Open2;
#$| = 1;

while ($line = <STDIN>) {
   #last if ($line =~ /quit/i);
   print "child_got_this:$line";
}
print "child done\n";

exit;

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On windows it returns this:
parent:child done
parent done

Thanks for any help!!!

Justin Eltoft

"If at all god's gaze upon us falls, its with a mischievous grin, look at him" -- Dave Matthews

In reply to My latest IPC::Open2 attempt by Eradicatore

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