Bug#1060798: IPC::Run3::run3 eats the calling process' stdin

[gregor herrmann]

Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52317

On Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:04:49 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:

> The problem has been around for a long time, I can confirm it's already
> there in Debian 8 ("jessie"). My gut feeling tells me I had already 
> reported that, but I cannot find any traces of that (upstream page is
> not barrier-free so I cannot check there). Also, his caused quite some
> data loss in one of my programs, so possibly the severity
> should be even higher.

There's an CPAN RT ticket at
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52317

An attempt for a pull request was withdrawn as non-functional, and …
 
> So if all else fails, please place a big fat warning into IPC::Run3's
> manpage to avoid other people get hit by this, too.

… the last step seems to be a suggestion to document the issue:
https://github.com/rjbs/IPC-Run3/pull/10


Cheers,
gregor

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