Please see 195144 for my answer and RMGir's reply. Is there any other work around to communicate between child and parent under win32? (this all started when a child was doing a blocking read and the parent was used to break out of that read cycle) So far, I have tried pipe $parent,$child or die, which still seemed to be blocked by that read statement. I also tried open(TO,"$-") || die but that's not supported by win32 either. I also tried threads, but activestate, in a stroke of genius, did not compile the perl.exe binary with 5005Threads, which makes the Thread.pm module useless. Instead, they compiled it with iThreads, which, even after getting threads.pm and threads::shared.pm into perl 5.6.1, do not seem to work for me (I get an error message saying that perl version is less than 5.8).

Any other suggestions?

In reply to Re: •Re: Re: •Re: Catching signals by gri6507
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