You need to setup a pipe from your parent to your child. I believe IO::Pipe will facilitate this. It's been quite a while since I've had to do it so I can't really give you a concrete example.

Update: I actually spent some time and came up with a simple example. 

use IO::Pipe;

$pipe = new IO::Pipe;

if($pid = fork()) {

    $pipe->writer();

    while(<STDIN>)
    {
        print $pipe $_;
    }
}
else
{

    $pipe->reader();

    while(<$pipe>)
    {
        $line = $_;

        print "CHILD: $line";
    }
}

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For some reason the data isn't pushed through the pipe until you end the input stream (^D) setting $| didn't seem to help.

In reply to Re: Problem with passing my script's STDIN to child by amw1
in thread Problem with passing my script's STDIN to child by suaveant

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