It's a deadlock situation. test1 prints a line, then waits for input from test2. At the same moment, test2 reads the line from test1, and then waits for more, until it receives end of file. But you don't close the output handle in test1 until you've seen end-of-file from test2. Both programs are waiting for input from the other, and they'll wait till they see end-of-file. Which is never going to happen.

Close your output handle in test1 before reading input from test2 and it should work (although I didn't test it, there may be more bugs lurking).

And it can't hurt to check the return value of open2.

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In reply to Re: communicating with another program by Perl Mouse
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