One problem I see is that the parent process is reading from all of the child processes through the "first_child" file handle. This makes it easy for output from the children to be mixed together. This is especially true since pipes are block buffered and will tend to split lines. One thing to try is unbuffering the output in the children processes. Then they will write for each line. This may not work if

Also, why are you using the piped open for the second call? You never write to the stdin of the subprocesses. And there is no point to having a child process that just waits for the system to return. A fork/exec would work just as well.

In reply to Re: Processes clobbering each other by iburrell
in thread Processes clobbering each other by mcogan1966

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