in reply to Re: How do I get the process ID from a system("x &") call?
in thread How do I get the process ID from a system("x &") call?

On *nix systems, when you call system() with a single argument, something magic happens under the covers.
It happens on any system, actually, so long as we're talking about Perl scripts.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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