Dear Monks

I'm writing a big (complex) program (which I shouldn't have done in the first place) but now I have to continue and finish it.

Anyway, when I try to execute a program from within my script, for example like
system("$prog -f $fname ") ;

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It executes it but for some reason it never seems to leave this call. First I blamed the program I was calling, but after running it, without any problems, using a small test script and also the command line, it became crystal clear and I realized it had to do with me, myself and my script :(

It only seems to happen with this program, because I can call ls without problems.....
So, all this stuff is new for me, which means I don't know what information can be relevant to post here!

If there is a monk outside that has a clue, I would really like to hear it!!!

Thanks a lot
LuCa

ps I also tried to call the program with open and with `....`, but with the same result

In reply to script hangs after executing program by jeanluca

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