The parent is printing, the child is dying. Try this:

use strict;
use warnings;
use IPC::Open3;

$|=1;
print "parent pid: $$\n";
my($in, $out, $err, $pid);
# duplicate stderr and stdout
open( $out, ">&STDOUT" ) or
    die "Can't dup STDOUT to OUTPUT: $!\n";
open( $err, ">&STDERR" ) or
    die "Can't dup STDERR to OUTERR: $!\n";

eval { $pid = open3($in, $out, $err, @ARGV) };
die "$$ open3 gave trouble: $@\n" if $@;
print "$$ It is running\n";
close $in;

print "stdout:\n";
print while <$out>;
close $out;

print "$$ stderr:\n";
print "$$ $_" while <$err>;
close $err;

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In reply to Re: delayed die and open3 by tlm
in thread delayed die and open3 by Random_Walk

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