I made some changes to your basic code structure and came up with something that gets me almost there. Could you take a look and let me know if you see any glaring issues.

Also I assumed the way I have it coded would enable me to get whatever was "printed" prior to killing the thread but this does not seem to be the case, any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

UPDATED:

my $command = 'diskpart';

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

my $last = pop(@results);
if ($last =~ m/^!!!TIMEOUT!!!/i) {
    print "Bad: \n" . join(' ', @results);
}
else {
    push(@results, $last);
    print "Good:\n " . join(' ', @results);
}


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

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

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

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

    while ($thr->is_running() and $time > 0) {
        sleep(1);
        $time--;
    }
    if ($thr->is_joinable()) {
        return @results;
    }
    else {
        $thr->detach;
        kill 3, $pid;
        push(@results, '!!!TIMEOUT!!!');
        print ("\n @results \n");
        return @results;
    }
}

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Thanks

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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