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- IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
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- $pid = open3(\*WTRFH, \*RDRFH, \*ERRFH,
- 'some cmd and args', 'optarg', ...);
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- Extremely similar to _o_p_e_n_2(), _o_p_e_n_3() spawns the given $cmd and connects
- RDRFH for reading, WTRFH for writing, and ERRFH for errors. If ERRFH is
- '', or the same as RDRFH, then STDOUT and STDERR of the child are on the
- same file handle. The WTRFH will have autoflush turned on.
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- If WTRFH begins with "<&", then WTRFH will be closed in the parent, and
- the child will read from it directly. If RDRFH or ERRFH begins with
- ">&", then the child will send output directly to that file handle. In
- both cases, there will be a _d_u_p(2) instead of a _p_i_p_e(2) made.
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- If you try to read from the child's stdout writer and their stderr
- writer, you'll have problems with blocking, which means you'll want to
- use _s_e_l_e_c_t(), which means you'll have to use _s_y_s_r_e_a_d() instead of normal
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- _o_p_e_n_3() returns the process ID of the child process. It doesn't return
- on failure: it just raises an exception matching /^open3:/.
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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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