tye helped me out with this code a while back on another thread, and i just wanted to finish this up with the working code, so here it is~

#!/usr/bin/perl
# test1.pl
use IPC::Open3;
$n = "\n";
open( OUTPUT, ">&STDOUT" ) or 
    die "Can't dup STDOUT to OUTPUT: $!$n";
open( OUTERR, ">&STDERR" ) or 
    die "Can't dup STDERR to OUTERR: $!$n";
eval { 
    $pid = open3("<&STDIN", \*OUTPUT, \*OUTERR, 'perl return.pl') ;
    $val = waitpid(-1,0); # <--- added this line
};
$@ && die "ERROR: $@$n";
@results = <OUTPUT>;
@errors  = <OUTERR>;
close OUTPUT;
close OUTERR;
print "---pid$n";     print $pid . $n;
print "---\$?$n";     print $? . $n; # <--- prints exit val
print "---results$n"; foreach(@results) { print $_ . $n };
print "---errors$n";  foreach(@errors)  { print $_ . $n };
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~Particle