in reply to How to fork the debugger (GitHub)

You can maybe look into using system(); this may not suite all your needs but it does fork.
fork is done first and the parent process waits for the child process to exit.
system perldoc

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Re^2: How to fork the debugger (GitHub)
by haukex (Archbishop) on Jun 07, 2020 at 14:22 UTC
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      He he, thanks. :)

      After I realized the ambiguity of the title I added "(GitHub)" part.

      Funnily it's still misunderstood...

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      > No, fork, not fork.

      We can do that, we don't even need a reason.

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        Well, they fundamentally mean the same thing (make a copy); they are just being applied to different things (projects/repositories vs processes).

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