Hello all, I'm "porting" some shell scripts to run on win32 platforms (how fun) and have run into a problem. One of the scripts is a boot-time script which launches a daemon and then checks to make sure the daemon is running. The daemon prints prints both to STDOUT and STDERR. The current shell script runs this daemon through a sub-shell and then into a log file. This is done to allow log rotation without killing the daemon. The problem I am having is with actually spawning the daemon. I have tried fork(), Win32::Process, and pipes to no avail. It seems that each of these is waiting for the child to return before exitting. This child process (daemon) will not return, nor do I want it to. Also, I can not perform any action (request) which requires talking w/ the daemon while the parent is still waiting for the child to return (die). Any suggestions on how to do this in the win32 environment? I will supply some code if needed. Thanks, Eric

In reply to spawning children in Win32 environment by Anonymous Monk

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