by BUU (Prior)

on Nov 13, 2006 at 21:26 UTC ( [id://583881]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Can you simply check if you've got the full output and then exit out of the loop and manually kill the process?

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Re^2: Question about IPC::Open2 by GaijinPunch (Pilgrim) on Nov 13, 2006 at 22:03 UTC
No... there's no way to know if it's the end or not... other than leave ample time for it to output.	[reply]
Re^3: Question about IPC::Open2 by BUU (Prior) on Nov 13, 2006 at 22:17 UTC
So uh, basically you want to open a filehandle and read data from it.. and keep reading.. and keep reading.. and you have no way to tell when to stop? Seems rather unsolvable to me.	[reply]
Re^4: Question about IPC::Open2 by GaijinPunch (Pilgrim) on Nov 13, 2006 at 23:05 UTC
Not really. Read for X amount of seconds, then quit reading. My sleep doesn't seem to be doing that. I will try some of the solutions below and see what happens.	[reply]

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