Re: how to exec() with my filehandles !

Call me confused, but the only "exec" I find in your program is in part of a string literal.

Assuming a POSIX system (and probably other Unix systems even if they aren't fully POSIX compliant, it may even hold for some non-Unix systems), filehandles are inherited by the execed process - unless they were marked "close on exec".

But one should realize that file handles are just numbers (well, this is Unix kernel stuff; Unix kernels are written in C; in C, everything is a number (or sequences of numbers); so it's not a surprise file handles are numbers). If your execed process is a Perl program, you'll have to dup a file handle (see perlopentut).

However, given the lack of an exec in your code, I don't really know what your question is.

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Re^2: how to exec() with my filehandles ! by snfever (Novice) on May 21, 2010 at 21:31 UTC
Yes sorry, i put a "system" function in my sub, but it's "exec" Code updated! thanks ! I will also try open3, thanks !	[reply]
Re^3: how to exec() with my filehandles ! by snfever (Novice) on May 21, 2010 at 21:42 UTC
OK, i'm testing the short code (with open3) and it's working perfectly ! I need to go to CPAN more :) Thanks everybody !	[reply]
Re^4: how to exec() with my filehandles ! by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 21, 2010 at 23:08 UTC
IPC::Open3 is pretty low level. I suggest you look at IPC::Run3 or the more flexible IPC::Run	[reply]
Re^4: how to exec() with my filehandles ! by bart (Canon) on May 22, 2010 at 00:19 UTC
Well, I don't want to curb your enthusiasm, but IPC::Open3 is a core module, meaning: it comes with Perl. So in this case, no visit to CPAN is necessary.	[reply]