In a message dated: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:53:07 EDT
"Evan A. Zacks" said:
>[forwarded submission from a non-member address -- rjk]
>
>From: "Evan A. Zacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:04:37 -0400
>Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Safe execution of 1 perl prog from another?
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>One option is to open a pipe from 'minus' to fork a child whose STDOUT
>will be available to the parent through the pipe. Then have the child
>exec() the command line program. You'll want to redirect the child's
>STDERR to STDOUT before exec'ing, though.
[...code example snipped...]
>perldoc perlipc and read the section under 'Using open() for IPC' for
>more details.
Ahhhh! Why didn't I think of that! I've done that before in C, why
not perl :)
Thanks,
I'll try that!
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Seeya,
Paul
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