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Forked Children Should Exit

by belden (Friar)
on Mar 25, 2003 at 21:13 UTC ( [id://245790]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Viewing a PDF file from a Perl program
in thread Viewing a PDF file from a Perl program

Urmm... what's to stop your child from falling through to the parent code? Usually forked kids have an exit() to prevent this from happening. If you used exec() instead of system(), then you'd have an implicit exit. I think you need an exit. If not, I'm curious why.

blyman
setenv EXINIT 'set noai ts=2'

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