[Chicago-talk] fork and talk to the parent

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Dec 4 22:00:31 CST 2003


>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> writes:

Jay> I want to fork a process, but then I want to child to talk to the parent.

Define "talk".  Synchronous unidirectional is trivial:

open CHILD, "some commmand|" or die;
while (<CHILD>) { ... }

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