This depends on knowing what the prompt will be, which I don't in this case. If I know what the prompt would be, of course I can just wait until I see it, but in this case I don't know what it'll be.

I actually know what to do IF the program is waiting for input. What I need to be able to do is distinguish whether the background program is running (and just taking a while to complete) or if it's stalled waiting for input.

In this situation, it's actually not critical that I be able to interact with the program... I just need to know what state it's in. That's why it's not absolutely critical that I use IPC::Open3 or RPC::Run... if I can have access to STDIN/STDOUT, that would be nice, but I'll do without if I have to.

One more detail... the program will be sending stuff to STDOUT/STDERR, so the presense of output from the program doesn't signal that it's prompting for input.

In reply to Re^2: Testing for a background process waiting for input by SBECK
in thread Testing for a background process waiting for input by SBECK

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