Thanks for the clarification. I should have read your original post more thoroughtly.
I tried all my tricks to fake out &Pod::Html::pod2html, but I can't make it work without resorting to pipes.
If you wish to resort to pipes, the following Worked For Me(tm).
use strict;
use IO::File;
use IO::Pipe;
use Pod::Html qw( &pod2html );
# I only use $fh to get a pod string, It is not part
# of the solution.
my $fh = IO::File->new("<foo.pod")
or die "filaed to open foo.pod: $!";
$fh->input_record_separator( undef );
my ($str);
$str = $fh->getline();
$fh->close;
# Got the pod string in $str
my $pipe = IO::Pipe->new()
or die "failed to create pipe: $!";
my ($pid,$fd);
if ( $pid = fork() )
{ #parent
open(TMPSTDIN, "<&STDIN")
or die "failed to dup stdin to tmp: $!";
$pipe->reader();
$fd = $pipe->fileno;
open(STDIN, "<&=$fd")
or die "failed to dup \$fd to STDIN: $!";
pod2html();
open(STDIN, "<&TMPSTDIN")
or die "failed to restore dup'ed stdin: $!";
}
else
{ #child
$pipe->writer();
$pipe->print($str);
$pipe->close();
exit 0;
}
$pipe->close();
exit 0;
I think this will work satifactorally even on the Win32 port of Perl. Win32 doesn't really fork(), it just creates a thread. But I restore the original STDIN and the child dies pretty quickly.
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