I've just run into this bug: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=66224
Apparently it's been a problem for a while - first being reported in 2001: http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=98839218229712&w=2 What would it take to resolve this - either by changing IPC::Open3 or mod_perl or by some other remedy? It would be really nice to have things 'just work'. Thanks, ER