in reply to Re^10: Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows)
in thread Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows)

This slightly modified version using STDIN works fine, in a non-blocking manner for me on linux.

I just showed that your fcntl command doesn't work on Windows.

Is your error coming on a Windows platform? If thats so, nothing I can do, except encourage people to switch to a real operating system, instead of a game platform. :-)

Windows does have an equivalent to unix's file handles and select (events that can be tied to file handles and WaitForMultipleObjects), but Perl doesn't support them.

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Re^12: Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows)
by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 30, 2008 at 16:23 UTC
    For the sake of the original poster, would you know the names of the Win32 modules that implements the select function, and/or anything that relates to reading pipes?
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