Hello monks,
I wanted to launch 2 external programs from perl script at the sametime and problem I ran into is that when parent and child is done running 2 external program, subsequent lines gets executed twice.( I used system command ). since I wanted to just run subsequent command once , i tried using system(parent) and exec(for child).. it looks like program worked but not sure if this is the right way to do things like this... Please advise.

ps:I am not sure about wait command as when i monitor the process, they seem to perfectly go away without wait command

thank you. 
use warnings;
use strict;

print "PID=$$\n";

my $child = fork();
die "Can't fork: $!" unless defined $child;

sub si {
     my $ar = shift;
     print "ar is $ar\n";
}

if ( $child > '0' ) {  #parent process
   print "Parent process: PID=$$, chid=$child\n";
      system("/root/program/parent_pro.pl");
} else { #child process
   my $ppid = getppid();
   print "Child process: PID=$$, parent=$ppid\n";
      #system("echo this is child");
      exec("/root/program/child_pro.pl");
   
}

print "hi how are you\n";
print "fine i am doing good\n";

si("MJ");
si("JP");

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In reply to using system and exec in same script using child by convenientstore

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