perl：一个父母，许多孩子 - 父母中的单管道阅读器？

在perl中是否可以以这样一种方式建立一个管道，即父管道只有一个READER管道，并且许多子管道在它们启动/退出时写入它？

典型的食谱代码是：

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# pipe2 - use pipe and fork so child can send to parent

use IO::Handle;
pipe(READER, WRITER);
WRITER->autoflush(1);

if ($pid = fork) {
    close WRITER;
    chomp($line = <READER>);
    print "Parent Pid $$ just read this: `$line'\n";
   // do what you need
} else {
    die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid;
    close READER;
    print WRITER "Child Pid $$ is sending this\n";
    close WRITER;  # this will happen anyway
    exit;
}

让我们假设一种情况，我需要我的父级“READER”从多个子级获取消息，是否可以在不保留管道列表（每个子级一个）的情况下执行此操作？我无法关闭父级中的 WRITER，因为下一个子级将无法获得有效的句柄进行写入。我还需要父级继续其常规操作，并且不阻止来自管道的任何客户端数据。

我需要的伪代码：

# parent code
pipe (READER, WRITER)
fork_random_number_of_children(READER,WRITER)

on_some_tick => {
    my $data = read_from(READER, non_blocking)
    if (data) print "Hey some child sent me: $data"
    else print "No data, going back life"
    do_other_things_before_next_tick()
}

child_job(R,W) { # lets assume this is called for each child fork
  close (R); # no problem, its a copy
  sleep (random duration)
  print W, "Message from child with pid $$"
  exit 0
}

我认为没有必要close WRITER在父级中。这可能是一个很好的做法，但是由于关闭管道后您无法将同一个管道重新用于新的子进程，因此这是一个不这样做的好借口。如果你保留WRITER打开直到启动完所有子进程，您可以将管道与多个子进程重用。这是概念证明：

use IO::Handle;
use POSIX ':sys_wait_h';
pipe(READER,WRITER);
WRITER->autoflush(1);

sub child_process {
    my $stage = shift;
    close READER;  # also a best but optional practice
    srand($$);
    do {
        sleep 1 + 5*rand();
        print WRITER "Child Pid $$ ($stage) is sending this\n";
    } while (rand > 0.5);
    exit;
}

# initial set of children
for (my $i=0; $i<5; $i++) {
    if (fork() == 0) {
        child_process("LAUNCH");
    }
}

# parent
my ($rin,$rout) = ('');
vec($rin,fileno(READER),1) = 1;
while (1) {
     # non-blocking read on pipe
     my $read_avail = select($rout=$rin, undef, undef, 0.0);
     if ($read_avail < 0) {
         if (!$!{EINTR}) {
             warn "READ ERROR: $read_avail $!\n";
             last;
         }
     } elsif ($read_avail > 0) {
         chomp(my $line = <READER>);
         print "Read in Parent $$: '$line'\n";
     } else {
         print STDERR "No input ... do other stuff\n";
         # start some run-time child processes
         if (time-$^T > 5 && time-$^T < 10) {
             # launch a few more children in the middle of the program
             if (fork() == 0) {
                 child_process("RUN");
             }
         }
         sleep 1;
     }
     last if waitpid(-1,&WNOHANG) < 0;    # no more children are alive
}
close WRITER;  # now it is safe to do this ...