With this approach in mind, your best solution would be to iteration through the process table following execution of your system processes. Under *NIX, you would want to use Proc::ProcessTable (which I have written about before here). For Windows, you should take a look at either Win32::Process or Win32::ProcFarm.

Even so, I still think that you would find the best solution from pre-forking within your script, rather than launching system processes and detaching yourself from the controlling tty. This pre-forking approach would give you greater control, without the need to extraneous loops and control structures, of your spawned processes.

 

Ooohhh, Rob no beer function well without!

In reply to Re: Re: How do you get PID of a program called using system call? by rob_au
in thread How do you get PID of a program called using system call? by monk_e_magic

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