Ignore the previous message - I still haven't figured it out but there are enough tools written in perl to not bother piping the message here and there to extract small amounts of information. I'll post my complete script once I'm done!
On Monday 01 September 2003 13:04, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I'm trying to go with perl now as it is much faster and seemingly more > capable. I've ran into a problem that I can't figure out, though. The > behaviour of the following seems very strange: > > my $pid = open2(*Reader, *Writer, 'formail -x From:'); > # dies with "Broken Pipe" > my $pid = open2(*Reader, *Writer, 'formail -I ""'); > # never returns > my $pid = open2(*Reader, *Writer, 'cat'); > # never returns > > Have I, a perl newbie, done something really newbtabulous? Or perhaps > there's something wrong with my installation of Perl. The above are pretty > much the same as the IPC man page's Bidirectional Communication section. > Should I try the open_proc it talks about instead? Is open_proc somewhere > in portage? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
