Here's a version that uses that SIGPIPE to restart a child ( with a new pipe ), but things had to be shuffled around a bit. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1174747

use strict;
use warnings;
$| = 1;

my ($from_parent, $to_child );

while(1)
  {
  my $msg = "hello from $$\n";
  print "pipe and fork, parent $$\n";
  pipe( $from_parent, $to_child ) or die "$! on pipe";
  if( my $pid = fork )
    { # parent
    close $from_parent;
    my $more = 1;
    $SIG{HUP} = sub { $pid and kill 15, $pid };
    $SIG{PIPE} = sub { $more = 0 };
    while($more)
      {
      syswrite $to_child, $msg, length $msg;
      sleep 3;
      }
    }
  elsif( defined $pid )
    { # child
    close $to_child;
    print "child $$ started\n";
    while(1)
      {
      if( sysread $from_parent, my $buffer, 100 )
        {
        print "in child $$: $buffer";
        }
      }
    exit;
    }
  else
    {
    die "$! on fork";
    }
  }

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In reply to Re: fork(): terminating the child without killing the parent by tybalt89
in thread fork(): terminating the child without killing the parent by Bloehdian

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