in reply to Re: does system() return a pid?
in thread does system() return a pid?

Thanks. Any documentation I could read told me nothing. fork() makes sense.

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Re^3: does system() return a pid?
by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2015 at 01:27 UTC
    "Any documentation I could read ..."

    I assume from this statement that there's some documention you can't read (or, more likely, find or access). Here's some options:

    With internet access:

    Without internet access, the perldoc utility is still available from the command line. It should give you the documentation for whatever version of Perl you're using. At least the first, but probably both, of these should work for you:

    • $ perldoc perldoc
    • $ man perldoc

    — Ken