Re^6: Using Proc::Background and Win32

But back to the Win32::Process, does anyone think this would be better to use then using the system command

The bottom line is that all of them -- including system which ends up calling win32_spawnvp() in Win32.c -- use the OS call CreateProcess().

What distinguishes them, is the preprocessing of the arguments and command strings, prior to calling CreateProcess(), and in that respect, system does it better than all of the others.

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Re^7: Using Proc::Background and Win32 by mmartin (Monk) on Oct 21, 2013 at 16:58 UTC
Hey BrowserUK, thanks for the reply! Ok cool, thanks for the clarification... I guess I'll save myself the headache and use that system command that you posted, which you suggested I try. Which was this one here: `Perl> $pid = system 1, 'perl', '-E"sleep 20; say q[done]"';; Perl> print kill 0, $pid while sleep 1;;` [download] Since the command seems to work without any problems and I can check on it's progress, then that's good enough for me! Thanks Again for the help, very much appreciated! Thanks, Matt	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^7: Using Proc::Background and Win32
by mmartin (Monk) on Oct 21, 2013 at 16:58 UTC

Which was this one here:

Perl> $pid = system 1, 'perl', '-E"sleep 20; say q[done]"';;
Perl> print kill 0, $pid while sleep 1;;
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