Re^3: Killing process group run with IPC::Open3

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So I ran a few tests. It seems that the child can't read from the parent's STDIN. I presume this is the problem to which you are referring.

man 2 setpgrp explains

At any time, one (and only one) of the process groups in the session can be the foreground process group for the terminal; the remaining process groups are in the background.

I don't know what a session is, but adding setsid() appears to solve the problem.

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Re^4: Killing process group run with IPC::Open3 by pm_sanchay (Initiate) on Feb 03, 2012 at 07:49 UTC
My bad for using pre. I will be more careful from now. Yes, I meant "child can't read from the parent's STDIN". `setsid()` does appear to work. But it has another issue - I don't understand what happens if a KILL signal is sent to parent (example cntl-c)? Will have to understand what setsid does. Thanks for your help.	[reply] [d/l]

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