Dear Monks,

I need enlightenment to a problem:
Spawning a child, and allowing the parent process to finish (which it does) and return (seems to hung) while the child runs on his own.
I have the following code: 
my $pid = fork;
if ( defined $pid ) {
   unless ($pid) {
       # Detach from parent
       setsid or  print("Can't detach from parent. notify cvs admin: $
+!");
       exec "perl ${script_dir}/check_and_auto_merge.pl $gUSER $lBranc
+h";
       die "Failed exec auto_merge.pl\n copy log and notify cvs admin\
+n\nExec failed: $!\n";
       exit 1;
   }
}
print("Parent ended");

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The parent somehow finish but does not return, and the the cvs client command hangs. Only after the child finish the client command ends. This on a longer process is not acceptable to the users.
Could you suggest a solution?
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In reply to Child keeps parent from returning...? by l1ve2love

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