in reply to Re^6: named pipe and "Text file busy"
in thread named pipe and "Text file busy"

I'm really at a loss, since I can't re-create this. I've never seen "Text file busy" in relation to a named pipe error. Did you find any better answers in comp.lang.perl.misc, yet (I noticed you had posted there as well)?

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