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sysseek() does not work on a FIFO it seems.
would it be a solution to reopen the FIFO before the select statement ?
it works, but i dont think that is the proper way....

use strict;
use POSIX qw(mkfifo);
use Fcntl qw(O_RDONLY O_NONBLOCK SEEK_SET);
use IO::Handle;


my $fifofile = "fifo";
my $inputbuf;

unlink($fifofile);
mkfifo($fifofile, 0666) or die (' can\'t create FIFO:'.$fifofile);

while (1){
    sysopen(FIFOFD, $fifofile, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK ) or die ("can\'t
+ read FIFO:'.$fifofile");
    my $rin ='';
    vec($rin,fileno(FIFOFD),1)=1;
    select( $rin, undef, undef, undef );
    print "select returning\n";
    my $fromfifo;
    while ( sysread(FIFOFD, $fromfifo, 1) == 1 ){
        $inputbuf .= $fromfifo ;
    }
    my $command;
    my $index;
    while ( $index = index($inputbuf,"\n" )+1 ){
        my $command =  substr($inputbuf,0,$index,"");
        if ( defined ($command) ) {
            print $command;
        }
    }
}
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In reply to Re^2: select($rin,undef,undef,undef) only blocking once by rabbit7
in thread select($rin,undef,undef,undef) only blocking once by rabbit7

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