Hi all,

I've read the following and I think I understand it -
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col39.html
What I want to do is run a perl process instead of routetrace, and print a progress report to the screen as my perl program executes.
First of all, how do I call my perl program? and secondly am I right in saying that when my program has finally finished, that the while loop will exit -
while (<F>) 
{
  $buf .= $_;
  $cache->set($session, [0, $buf]);
}

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because my program will close STDIN?
Should I just replace "exec routetrace" with exec perl mylongperlprogram.pl
Thanks for your help.
Jason.

In reply to Running a long perl process by Anonymous Monk

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