in reply to open3 and IO::Select

You might have a look at IPC::Run. It's by far the easiest/fastest way (of which I'm aware, anyway) to implement the functionality you're looking for.

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Re^2: open3 and IO::Select
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 20, 2007 at 05:39 UTC

    Have you tried to use this on Win32? Have you seen the list of win32 limitations? In particular:

    IPC::Run uses helper processes, one per redirected file, .... This is a waste of resources and will change in the future to either use threads (instead of helper processes) or a WaitForMultipleObjects call (instead of select).
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      I haven't tried anything at all on Win32 in the past 10 years, but the OP said he was going to test on Windows and deploy on "*nix" so it might not be such a bad idea.
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