Quoting Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
the child process is probably setting O_NONBLOCK on STDIN. Does it help if you do something like
indeed, startx/Xorg seems to set O_NONBLOCK on the console where it sends the output to.
use Fcntl qw(F_GETFL F_SETFL O_NONBLOCK); $flags = fcntl(STDIN, F_GETFL, 0) or die "Can't get flags for STDIN: $!\n"; $flags = fcntl(STDIN, F_SETFL, $flags & ~O_NONBLOCK) or die "Can't set flags for STDIN: $!\n";
worked, thx :) cu, michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
