create a new (Linux) console and redir. STDIN & STDOUT

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everybody,

the search function of perldoc is down and even here I
couldn't find how to do it, I only found Win.. solutions, but I need Linux-KDE-version.

I want a child-process (after fork) to start its own (new) console and
to redirect the STDOUT to this konsole. I need to create a new console:
cmd from a KDE-console: user:>konsole but system("konsole") returns -1 (failed).
After this I need to get the handels to redirect the STDOUT and STDIN to this console.
This konsole should die together with the child. Maybe that this doesn't need an extra cmd.

So far I have no idea how this should work,
Carl

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Re: create a new (Linux) console and redir. STDIN & STDOUT by grantm (Parson) on Nov 27, 2002 at 11:49 UTC
I'm not a Konsole kind of guy, but this should spawn a script in an Xterm: `system("xterm -e $command");` [download] After your 'system' failed, did you check $! for error details?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: create a new (Linux) console and redir. STDIN & STDOUT by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2002 at 16:51 UTC
The sane hacker will, of course, avoid shell and so prefer `system "xterm", -e => $command;` `:-)` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: create a new (Linux) console and redir. STDIN & STDOUT by zentara (Cardinal) on Nov 27, 2002 at 16:36 UTC
Maybe the IO-Tty module would give you some help.	[reply]