Extremely similar to open2(), open3() spawns the given $cmd
and connects RDRFH for reading, WTRFH for writing, and ERRFH
for errors. If ERRFH is '', or the same as RDRFH, then
STDOUT and STDERR of the child are on the same file handle.
The WTRFH will have autoflush turned on.
If WTRFH begins with "<&", then WTRFH will be closed in the
parent, and the child will read from it directly. If RDRFH
or ERRFH begins with ">&", then the child will send output
directly to that file handle. In both cases, there will be
a dup(2) instead of a pipe(2) made.
If you try to read from the child's stdout writer and their
stderr writer, you'll have problems with blocking, which
means you'll want to use select(), which means you'll have
to use sysread() instead of normal stuff.
open3() returns the process ID of the child process. It
doesn't return on failure: it just raises an exception
matching /^open3:/.
WARNING
It will not create these file handles for you. You have to
do this yourself. So don't pass it empty variables
expecting them to get filled in for you.
Additionally, this is very dangerous as you may block
forever. It assumes it's going to talk to something like
bc, both writing to it and reading from it. This is
presumably safe because you "know" that commands like bc
will read a line at a time and output a line at a time.
Programs like sort that read their entire input stream
first, however, are quite apt to cause deadlock.
The big problem with this approach is that if you don't have
control over source code being run in the child process, you
can't control what it does with pipe buffering. Thus you
can't just open a pipe to cat -v and continually read and
write a line from it.