use IPC::Open3;
sub piped_cmd {
local *TO;
local *FROM;
open3 (\*TO, \*FROM, \*FROM, "perl") or die "Cannot launch perl: $!"
+;
print TO @_, "\n__END__\n";
local $/;
<FROM>;
}
(That is portable, Windows and Unix.)
Note that doing things that way does not give access to
various things that you have defined in your script. If you
want that you are probably out of luck because all of the
methods that I know of for IO games (select, tie, etc)
work at the Perl level, and leave the C file-descriptors
alone. But then when you call system the program works
by file descriptor. :-(
This could be construed as a bug. |