Since I don't have a working fork, this code will spawn a process in the background on win32. It is specifically setup to run one of my perl scripts with a few different config files and without a dos window. I drop this in my startup folder and it kicks them off with a 2 second delay between them (the spawned script monitors databases, I don't want to pound the machine with 5 connections all at once...)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Process;
use Win32;
my $sleep = shift || 2;
my $pl = "traydb.pl";
my $pldir = "C:\\perl\\code\\TrayDb\\";
my @plargs = ('-configfile bdprod.cfg',
'-configfile fdprod.cfg',
'-configfile vdprod.cfg',
'-configfile fddvlp.cfg',
'-configfile bddvlp.cfg');
sub ErrorReport{
print Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() );
}
sub SpawnTrayDb {
my $ProcessObj = shift;
my $pl = shift;
my $plargs = shift;
Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,
"c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe",
"perl $pl $plargs",
0,
DETACHED_PROCESS,
$pldir)|| die ErrorReport();
}
foreach (@plargs) {
print "$pl $_\n";
sleep $sleep;
SpawnTrayDb(my $po, $pl, $_);
}