Thanks for the info about the DBH and forks. I got some of the errors to go away by closing the conn before the fork. I still have the same error with FileHandles and forks.pm. I decided to simplify the issue by creating a single script with no other modules and still saw the error with this one little script. This works just fine as soon as I comment out forks

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# forks_test.pl
use forks;

my $pid = open(CLI, "$ENV{HOME}/bin/cli all -D |") or die "couldn't fork: $!\n";
my $output = '';
while(<CLI>) {
#chomp($_);
if ($_ =~ /\w+.*/) {
$output .= $_;
print "$_\n";
} else {
}
}
close(CLI);

[prompt> ./forks_test.pl
cat: write error: Broken pipe

Any ideas out there about this one? I am using perl 5.8.5 on a RH9 linux box.

In reply to Re^2: forks.pm, CGI::App,TT and DBD::mysql by perldragon80
in thread forks.pm, CGI::App,TT and DBD::mysql by perldragon80

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