It would be IPC:: open3 or run3 the child will then handle the results of it's own spawning. The parent only needs to know whether the child is still alive. So the communication is a bit fake -- Parent only wants to know if closing the IPC filehandle to the child fails, signifying that the child has exited -- all this assuming there isn't another way to know if the child lives.

update: or rather closing the filehandle is what perlipc suggests but what if I need to poll repeatedly for exited?

update: socketpair is just a wrapper to what I already discussed. It complicates the question of how to create the multiple filehandles and still leaves the question of how to destroy them.

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