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Re^3: Can't close pipe to invalid process

by cLive ;-) (Prior)
on Aug 31, 2015 at 15:04 UTC ( [id://1140543]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Can't close pipe to invalid process
in thread Can't close pipe to invalid process

It was the not finding "prince" that caused it to fail (pretty much what aitap said).

Intuitively, I would think the open should fail if the executable being piped to can't be found, but that wasn't the case.

I added a test for the print, and that appears to return true.

So, what I have is:

ok 3 - Opened pipe ok 4 - Piped content to prince not ok 5 - Closed pipe

I'm wondering if an assumption is made internally about piping to the executable until Perl receives a return value on closing?!?

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Re^4: Can't close pipe to invalid process
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 31, 2015 at 16:25 UTC
    I'm wondering if an assumption is made internally about piping to the executable until Perl receives a return value on closing?!?

    Looking back at what you're sending down the pipe; it is way less than the typical 4kb buffer size; which means nothing will be sent until you try to close, at which point it will attempt to flush the buffer through and it is only at that point that the broken pipe will be discovered.

    You could verify that conjecture by trying to print more data to the pipe:

    my $fh; ok( open($fh, "|-", "prince - 2>/dev/null $test_file"), "Open +$test_file for writing" ); print( $fh 'x' x 1024 ) or die "Print failed at $_ with $!" fo +r 1 .. 5; ok( close($fh), "Close $test_file");

    My guess is that will fail at the 4th or 5th iteration with "Broken pipe".


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