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Hello,

Is  system 1, supposed to return the child's pid? It seems to return -1 when I tested it out. Is there any other windows command that might return the child's pid?

Thanks for the response.

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Re^4: question about running a system and a perl function background
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 20, 2004 at 22:34 UTC

    The "piped open" (See perlopentut) returns the pid of the child process.

    See also Re^5: question about running a system and a perl function background in this thread for an example of use.

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Re^4: question about running a system and a perl function background
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 20, 2004 at 22:22 UTC

    I believe it should. Have you tried printing "$!" and/or "$^E"? They may give you a meaning the cause of the error.

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