in reply to Re: Problems w/ system calls
in thread Problems w/ system calls

Regarding system - I've always used

system "blah &";

(rather than fork) to start stuff in the "background". I believe this works because of the & - system recognises this as a shell character and passes the whole string to /bin/sh.

Any comments/potential problems with this approach? (other than lack of portability, of course...)

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