This is probably pretty simple, but... I desire to start another process from a Win32 perl script. If I were in unix, I'd just write 
system "ls -l 2>Xerr >Xout &";

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And go from there. Well, I'm in (Yuck!) Win32 and that doesn't work, thus the question. Oh, yes I'd like the sub process to get specific file descriptors that I specify like the example above. This may be the hard part. Eventually I'll wait for the process to end, and that may be another call. Yes, I'm using XP/2000/NT (not 95/98/Me), because they are the ones that can have tasks like this.

Update...... Well, I tried: 

system 1, "program 2>Xerr >Xout";

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and that works, BUT... Windows desires to put up an empty command window (yuck!) and there is a rare instance where I might want to abort 'program'. What to do now? Also, where is the "system 1," thing documented? I also tried the "start /b" goodie, but it put up a command window as well. The information so far will allow me to do my deeds, but (as usual) I need a bit more (*SIGH*).

In reply to Async execution in Win32 by herby1620

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