Spawn a New Process and detach

needperlhelp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, is there a way to start a program from perl but don't wait for it to complete.

`program`;
system("program");
exec("program");

All these wait for the "Program" called to complete,
untill such time the perl script blocks, I dont want this to happen,
i only want to start the program, even if it fails it is not a problem.

Thanks

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Re: Spawn a New Process and detach by tirwhan (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2005 at 09:31 UTC
See the Q&A section:How do I start two programs without waiting for first one to be finished ? Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan	[reply]
Re: Spawn a New Process and detach by salva (Canon) on Dec 16, 2005 at 09:34 UTC
On linux/unix systems you can use: `fork or exec("program", @args);` [download] On windows (and unix also) you can use Proc::Background	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Spawn a New Process and detach by Mandrake (Chaplain) on Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40 UTC
I think `system("program &") ;` [download] should work. Running the program in background allows your script to continue with rest of the code. Am I missing anything? Thanks..	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Spawn a New Process and detach by spurperl (Priest) on Dec 16, 2005 at 09:30 UTC
If you are on Unix, use "fork". On Windows, I found Win32::Process quite useful	[reply]