While not a solution to your problem per se, I might suggest another approach to the redirection of command output using IPC::Open3 - The following snippet of code, duplicates the STDOUT and STDERR streams and calls open3 to execute the command, directing the output into the respective streams.

use Carp;
use IO::Handle;
use IPC::Open3;
use strict;

my $STDOUT = IO::Handle->new;
my $STDERR = IO::Handle->new;
open($STDOUT, ">&STDOUT") ||
    croak( 'Cannot duplicate STDOUT to file handle - ', $! );
open($STDERR, ">&STDERR") ||
    croak( 'Cannot duplicate STDERR to file handle - ', $! );

eval {
    open3(
        '<&STDIN',
        $STDOUT,
        $STDERR,
        "some_application"
    ) || die $!;
    waitpid(-1, 0);
};
croak( 'Cannot execute command - ', $@ ) if $@;

#   The STDOUT and STDERR output of some_application 
#   execution now resides in $STDOUT and $STDERR 
#   respectively. eg.

print $_ foreach <$STDOUT>

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As always with Perl, TMTOWTDI.

 

In reply to Re: Pipe, fork, exec and red-hot pokers. by rob_au
in thread Pipe, fork, exec and red-hot pokers. by hagus

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