in reply to Re: Backtick caught in infinite loop
in thread Backtick caught in infinite loop

Thanks very much.

I'm a total noob to perl so I'm assuming that I can just put $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE', right before "my @result..." and not around the beginning of the script with

 use strict;

 use File::Basename;

etc.

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Re^3: Backtick caught in infinite loop
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2014 at 13:17 UTC
    Usually, it would go right at the top of your script, right after use File::Basename. I'm guessing it would be ok before your backtick. BTW, you might want to read "perldoc perlipc".
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