Child handle and parent handle : Socket « Network « Perl






  1. Perl
  2. Network
  3. Socket

Child handle and parent handle

    

use Socket;
use IO::Handle;

socketpair(CHILDHANDLE, PARENTHANDLE, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC)
    or  die "Could not create socketpair.";

CHILDHANDLE->autoflush(1);
PARENTHANDLE->autoflush(1);

if ($pid = fork) {
    close PARENTHANDLE;
    print CHILDHANDLE "Hello from the parent!\n";
    $line = <CHILDHANDLE>;
    print "Parent read: $line";
    close CHILDHANDLE;
    waitpid($pid,0);
} else {
    close CHILDHANDLE;
    $line = <PARENTHANDLE>;
    print "Child read: $line";
    print PARENTHANDLE "Hello from the child!\n";
    close PARENTHANDLE;
    exit;
}








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