Hi,

I am trying to get 14 child processes to talk with the parent and send back data. I have 14 pipes with dynamic handles - using a hash, with hostname as the key (because I need to be able to uniquely identify which child process sent the data too). However, I am unable to read the data back in the parent. All I get are GLOB values. Code snippets are below. Any help is greatly appreciated!

foreach $host (@hosts) {
   pipe($fhr{$host}, $fhw{$host});
   if (fork() == 0) { # child process spawned
      #do stuff and then write to pipe like this:
      close $fhr{$host};
      print { $fhw{$host} } "$mystr";
      close $fhw{$host};
   }
}

while (wait() != -1) { #wait for children to finish }


foreach $host (@hosts) {
    close $fhw{$host};
    chomp ($mystring=<$fhr{$host}>);
    close $fhr{$host};
    print "DATA from $host: $mystring";
}

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I think the problem is with the chomp line. Am I reading from the pipe correctly?

In reply to Perl IPC using dynamic handles in hash by gansvv

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