in the parameter slot so it can be overwritten in the caller, or
an exception will be raised.
+The filehandles may also be integers, in which case they are understood
+as file descriptors.
+
open3() returns the process ID of the child process. It doesn't return on
failure: it just raises an exception matching C</^open3:/>. However,
C<exec> failures in the child are not detected. You'll have to
trap SIGPIPE yourself.
-open2() does not wait for and reap the child process after it exits.
+open3() does not wait for and reap the child process after it exits.
Except for short programs where it's acceptable to let the operating system
take care of this, you need to do this yourself. This is normally as
simple as calling C<waitpid $pid, 0> when you're done with the process.
# fixed for 5.001 by Ulrich Kunitz <kunitz@mai-koeln.com>
# ported to Win32 by Ron Schmidt, Merrill Lynch almost ended my career
# fixed for autovivving FHs, tchrist again
+# allow fd numbers to be used, by Frank Tobin
#
# $Id: open3.pl,v 1.1 1993/11/23 06:26:15 marc Exp $
#
close $_[0] or croak "$Me: close($_[0]) failed: $!";
}
+sub fh_is_fd {
+ return $_[0] =~ /\A=?(\d+)\z/;
+}
+
+sub xfileno {
+ return $1 if $_[0] =~ /\A=?(\d+)\z/; # deal with fh just being an fd
+ return fileno $_[0];
+}
+
my $do_spawn = $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'MSWin32';
sub _open3 {
$dup_err = ($dad_err =~ s/^[<>]&//);
# force unqualified filehandles into caller's package
- $dad_wtr = qualify $dad_wtr, $package;
- $dad_rdr = qualify $dad_rdr, $package;
- $dad_err = qualify $dad_err, $package;
+ $dad_wtr = qualify $dad_wtr, $package unless fh_is_fd($dad_wtr);
+ $dad_rdr = qualify $dad_rdr, $package unless fh_is_fd($dad_rdr);
+ $dad_err = qualify $dad_err, $package unless fh_is_fd($dad_err);
my $kid_rdr = gensym;
my $kid_wtr = gensym;
# If she wants to dup the kid's stderr onto her stdout I need to
# save a copy of her stdout before I put something else there.
if ($dad_rdr ne $dad_err && $dup_err
- && fileno($dad_err) == fileno(STDOUT)) {
+ && xfileno($dad_err) == fileno(STDOUT)) {
my $tmp = gensym;
xopen($tmp, ">&$dad_err");
$dad_err = $tmp;
}
if ($dup_wtr) {
- xopen \*STDIN, "<&$dad_wtr" if fileno(STDIN) != fileno($dad_wtr);
+ xopen \*STDIN, "<&$dad_wtr" if fileno(STDIN) != xfileno($dad_wtr);
} else {
xclose $dad_wtr;
xopen \*STDIN, "<&=" . fileno $kid_rdr;
}
if ($dup_rdr) {
- xopen \*STDOUT, ">&$dad_rdr" if fileno(STDOUT) != fileno($dad_rdr);
+ xopen \*STDOUT, ">&$dad_rdr" if fileno(STDOUT) != xfileno($dad_rdr);
} else {
xclose $dad_rdr;
xopen \*STDOUT, ">&=" . fileno $kid_wtr;
# I have to use a fileno here because in this one case
# I'm doing a dup but the filehandle might be a reference
# (from the special case above).
- xopen \*STDERR, ">&" . fileno $dad_err
- if fileno(STDERR) != fileno($dad_err);
+ xopen \*STDERR, ">&" . xfileno($dad_err)
+ if fileno(STDERR) != xfileno($dad_err);
} else {
xclose $dad_err;
xopen \*STDERR, ">&=" . fileno $kid_err;