Re^3: Reading only STDERR

I hadn't discerned from your original post what you wanted done with STDOUT. To have it sent to parent's STDOUT, you do this in parent.pl:

$pid = open3(\*WTRFH, '>&STDOUT', \*ERRFH, 'perl child.pl');
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Re^4: Reading only STDERR by nomis80 (Sexton) on Apr 06, 2005 at 14:02 UTC
Thank you very much, that's exactly what I needed. I hadn't realized that you were supposed to write the name of the filehandle in a string. I thought it didn't make much sense, but hey, does Perl make any sense at all? Thanks again!	[reply]
Re^5: Reading only STDERR by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Apr 06, 2005 at 14:11 UTC
Filehandles have always been kludgy. They are just bareword strings that, in the right context, get looked up in the symbol table. Directory handles are the same way. This is probably the most unfortunate design feature in Perl. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply]