Re: Gloabl sub only working with debug on?

[Nicholas Albright <albrnick@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 mikeh@minivend.com wrote:

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> Quoting Nicholas Albright (albrnick@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu):
> > 
> > 
> >   I am having a probelm with getting the output of a open3 command.  I
> > seem to only actually get the output when minivend is run in it's debug
> > mode.  I append many different things to $output as I go through the sub,
> > to check that I'm doing what I'm thinking I'm doing.  But when minivend is
> > run normally, I only get the output from my check assignments.  I never
> > seem to get the output of my open3 program.  This program works as a stand
> > alone perl program.
> 
> You might read the caveats and warnings that abound in IPC::Open3.
> Since MV closes STDOUT and STDERR in forking mode.....

  Ahh..! Thanks!  That would explain it.  :)  My problem is that I don't
want to e-mail the result, but rather encrypt some data before I insert it
into the database, and decrypt it on the way out.

  Any other suggestions?
   -Nick "Thanks for the response!" Albright

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