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>
>I did this in one of my programs and it seemed to work just fine:
>
>system("$command &");
>
Check it out again.
contents of child.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
sleep 10;
print "child exiting\n";
contents of parent.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
system( "perl child.pl &" );
print "parent exiting\n";
You will see a world of difference if you run these on NT then *nix. I
don't know what NT does with the '&'...
- Johnathan
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