Re^2: IPC::Open3 STDIN never sees eof on win32?

[Anonymous Monk]

I forgot to explain that "works" but leaves zombies which you can kill after sleep-ing for a while or a few iterations of  waitpid $kpid, WNOHANG;

[Yary]

Alas this doesn't fix the core problem of the subprocess hanging in the read loop. I'll modify the example a bit to make the misbehavior clearer, incorporating some of your suggestions & some from other nodes:

perl -MIPC::Open3 -MPOSIX=WNOHANG -e "open CPYOUT,'>&STDOUT';open CPYE
+RR,'>&STDERR';$pid=open3(\*IN,'>&CPYOUT','>&CPYERR','perl','-pe','END
+ {warn qq(Finished\n)}');close CPYOUT;close CPYERR;print IN 'Hello',$
+/;close IN;sleep 3;waitpid $pid,WNOHANG"

The one liner is getting long with it's new features:

The subprocess has an END block printing that it is done. In "real life" the sub-process reads all the input, then prints a bunch of output when it is done reading all the input. The purpose of this question is figuring out how get the subprocess to move beyond its read loop.

The parent is closing its copies of the output handles as suggested in another thread. We do see output on the screen, and the parent eventually exits anyway, so the child is not blocking on output.

Also added a waitpid, which doesn't reap, and I end up with a zombie process. Only it isn't truly a zombie, it is still waiting on stdin, active and parentless. Which explains why wait/waitpid "hang"- the child hasn't exited.

[bulk88]

I think the problem *might be* Perl's very large buffer size, see pipe fork win32.

[Yary]

Buffer size doesn't seem to be it, since I can turn on autoflush in the parent and see writes as they happen in the child. Also buffer size doesn't explain the child not seeing the parent close the pipe, and the child not seeing the parent exit.

That node pipe fork win32 is good reading but the poster states "If I add a 'close($parent);' after 'print $parent "exit now\r\n\r";' it works."- which is what I have in the one-liner, closing the parent's end of the pipe after I print to it.