Hi Browser, thanks for the link. I tried this but Perl is crashing when I run it.

Here is my code: 

my $command = 'dir';

my (@results) = _timedCommand($command, 30);

if (@results) {
    print "Good:\n " . join(' ', @results);
}
else {
    print "Bad\n";
}


sub _timedCommand
{
    use threads;
    use threads::shared;

    my ($command, $time) = @_;

    my @results :shared;
    my $pid :shared;

    async {
        $pid = open my $fh, "$command |" or die "$+, $^E";
        @results = <$fh>;
        $fh->close();
    }->detach;

    kill 0, $pid while sleep 1 and $time--;
    kill 3, $pid and return if $time;

    return @results;
}

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As you can see I tried testing it with a simple dir command which shouldn't cause any issues. When I put it in the debugger, it gets to the return statement, and @results is fine, once I execute the return line it simply kicks out of the debugger.

Any ideas why it would do that?

In reply to Re^2: How to deal with a forked proces that is waiting for user input? by gepapa
in thread How to deal with a forked proces that is waiting for user input? by gepapa

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