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- IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
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- use IPC::Open2;
- $pid = open2(\*RDR, \*WTR, 'some cmd and args');
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- $pid = open2(\*RDR, \*WTR, 'some', 'cmd', 'and', 'args');
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- The _o_p_e_n_2() function spawns the given $cmd and connects $rdr for reading
- and $wtr for writing. It's what you think should work when you try
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- open(HANDLE, "|cmd args|");
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- The write filehandle will have autoflush turned on.
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- If $rdr is a string (that is, a bareword filehandle rather than a glob or
- a reference) and it begins with ">&", then the child will send output
- directly to that file handle. If $wtr is a string that begins with "<&",
- then WTR will be closed in the parent, and the child will read from it
- directly. In both cases, there will be a _d_u_p(2) instead of a _p_i_p_e(2)
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- _o_p_e_n_2() returns the process ID of the child process. It doesn't return
- on failure: it just raises an exception matching /^open2:/.
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- It will not create these file handles for you. You have to do this
- yourself. So don't pass it empty variables expecting them to get filled
- in for you.
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- Additionally, this is very dangerous as you may block forever. It
- assumes it's going to talk to something like bbbbcccc, both writing to it and
- reading from it. This is presumably safe because you "know" that
- commands like bbbbcccc will read a line at a time and output a line at a time.
- Programs like ssssoooorrrrtttt that read their entire input stream first, however,
- are quite apt to cause deadlock.
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- The big problem with this approach is that if you don't have control over
- source code being run in the child process, you can't control what it
- does with pipe buffering. Thus you can't just open a pipe to cat -v and
- continually read and write a line from it.
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- See the _I_P_C::_O_p_e_n_3 manpage for an alternative that handles STDERR as
- well. This function is really just a wrapper around _o_p_e_n_3().
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