Neither backticks (qx) or system return control to the perl program until they exit. You will have to do your own fork() call so the parent perl program can do something while the child is running. Here's a small example of a parent sending SIGINT (what control-c sends) to a child.

Hope this helps... 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11165441
use warnings;
$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { die @_ };

if( my $pid = fork )
  {                    # parent
  sleep 1;
  kill 'INT', $pid;
  sleep 1;
  kill 'INT', $pid;
  sleep 1;
  kill 'TERM', $pid;
  print "parent waiting for child to exit\n";
  wait;
  print "parent exited\n";
  }
elsif( defined $pid )
  {                    # child
  print "child started\n";
  $SIG{INT} = sub { print "child got SIGINT\n" };
  $SIG{TERM} = sub { print "child got SIGTERM\n"; exit };
  sleep 1 while 1;
  }
else
  {
  die "fork failed";
  }

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In reply to Re: Control C; into a running system / exec? by tybalt89
in thread Control C; into a running system / exec? by gallagher118

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