Dear Perl monks, i am trying to write the results of some parsing to a fifo to be read by the oracle sqlloader, all in the same perl script but i cant make it work without blocking.. heres the code: 
if ($pid = open ($fifo, "|-")) # cookbok 16.11 open for r and w to ava
+oid blocks
{
   $fifo->autoflush(1);

     no warnings;
     foreach my $ky (sort keys %categories)
     {
        print $fifo "$categories{$ky}#";
     }

    close $fifo
        or die $! ? "Syserr closing fifo writer: $!"
                  : "Wait status $? from fifo writer";
}
else # child
{
   die "Cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid;
 
    # copy from parent (now stdin) into the file # need to redirect st
+din?

 #$fifofile->autoflush(1);
 
    while (<STDIN>)
    {
        $fifofile = $_;
      # print  $fifofile;
      system "sqlldr control=atpctl.ctl data=atp_fifo.dat userid=someu
+ser/pwd log=loader.log";
  
    }
    exit;       # Don't forget to make the fifo disappear.
}

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I can get the writer to print the line to stdout but sqlloader just hangs. im not wedded to this approach if it looks like a bad thing to do, but i have to parse 1000 files and read them in, so id rather do it in memory. thanks

In reply to writing to and reading from fifo by diomedea

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