Good to know, thanks. Perhaps I should report it as a bug to p5p.

But I could not see anywhere where it does something with $SIG{PIPE}. I assume that is something I would still have to do myself. I do not want to. I want errors form the child to simply be thrown as exceptions. Is $SIG{PIPE} the only error handler that needs to be installed? And there is no way to lexically scope it, either.

What I'm thinking of now is some sort of OO interface, call it IPC::Simple, where you instantiate by passing it the command, it does all of the IPC error handling for you, turning stuff into exceptions (not unlike IPC::System::Simple does for system and backticks), and accessors for the STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR file handles. I Just need STDIN for my current app, but I think a more generally useful Open3-based solution that properly scopes IPC error handling to throw exceptions would be very useful. IPC::Pipe is close-ish, but does not do the error handling stuff, I looks like. AMIRITE?

In reply to Re^2: What is the preferred cross-platform IPC module? by Theory
in thread What is the preferred cross-platform IPC module? by Theory

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