use strict; use warnings; my ($child, $parent); pipe($child, $parent) or die; my $pid = fork(); die "fork() failed: $!" unless defined $pid; if ($pid) { close $child; } else { close $parent; print "child waiting\n"; my $read; read($child, $read, 1); print "child exiting\n"; exit(0); } print $parent "exit now\r\n\r" x 373; print "parent going to wait\n"; waitpid($pid, 0);