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Re: Re: spawning Perl scriptsby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Mar 28, 2003 at 23:10 UTC ( [id://246558]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
{grin} I could have antisipated that reaction:0 I guess I could categorise that under the "doesn't work like unix" heading. Although, at the fundemental level, the differences between forking the current process into two processes and then immediately overlaying that process with another process using exec as a mechanism for starting an asynchronous process is a little conveluted. No more so than forking a shell and have it start the asynchronous process I would add. The nice thing about the Win32::Process route is that you ask the OS to start the asyncronous process for you with a single API call without the need for all the intermediate steps. I'm surprised that after all this time there is no similar create-an-asynchronous-process-running-this-command system call available under unix. Does anyone know how this is acheived under other OS's, VMS/s390 et. They don't all follow the fork and exec model do they? Examine what is said, not who speaks.
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