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You can not do that on Windows using IPC::Open3 because select only works with sockets (and this is a OS limitation, not perl fault).

The alternative is to use named pipes (see Win32::Pipe) that have an API that allows to do non-blocking IO, but that API is incompatible with any other out there, so you will have to write your programs (both parent and children) specifically for it, and don't expect then to run on Unix/Linux later.

Another alternative is to open a socket pair as a TCP connection through the loopback interface (newer perl versions already implement socketpair this way). But on my experience, on Windows, not all applications like having their stdin/stdout/stderr redirected to a socket.

In reply to Re: open3 and IO::Select by salva
in thread open3 and IO::Select by stephens2k

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