in reply to synopsis of IPC::Open3

\*CHLD_ERR and $err = gensym are two ways of creating a file handle to pass to open3. It makes no sense to use both. And it's not the cause of your problem.

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Re^2: synopsis of IPC::Open3
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 28, 2011 at 18:11 UTC
    My educated guess is that the OP has accidentally written a fork bomb, and is noticing the error message from running out of processes.
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