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I wrote it slightly differently, and it seems to work for me:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "I'm the master ($$)\n"; my %pids; my $children = 2; for my $x (1 .. $children) { my ($fh, $pid); my $tries = 6; do {$pid = open $fh, "|-"; unless (defined $pid) { warn "fork: $!\n"; die "bailing out" unless $tries--; sleep 5; } } until defined $pid; if ($pid) { print "I'm master ($$) of child ($pid)\n"; $pids {$pid} = $fh; } else { printf "I'm a child ($$) of master (%d)\n", getppid; while (<>) { chomp; printf "Child ($$) received: [%s]\n", $_; } print "Child ($$) exiting\n"; exit; } } my $count = 0; while (my ($pid, $fh) = each %pids) { my $data = sprintf "[[%02d]]", ++$count; printf "Sending data %s to child (%d)\n", $data, $pid; print $fh $data, "\n"; } while (my ($pid, $fh) = each %pids) { printf "Closing handle to child (%d)\n", $pid; close $fh or warn "Failed to close handle for child ($pid)\n"; } print "Last line\n"; __END__ I'm the master (19054) I'm a child (19055) of master (19054) I'm master (19054) of child (19055) I'm a child (19056) of master (19054) I'm master (19054) of child (19056) Sending data [[01]] to child (19056) Sending data [[02]] to child (19055) Closing handle to child (19056) Child (19056) received: [[[01]]] Child (19056) exiting Closing handle to child (19055) Child (19055) received: [[[02]]] Child (19055) exiting Last line

In reply to Re^4: How to tell a child what to do? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to tell a child what to do? by Eyck

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