Re^2: Forking seperate processes?

I don't need access to it's standard input or input, and exec won't work because I still want the main program to be able to continue doing other stuff.

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Re^3: Forking seperate processes? by graff (Chancellor) on Feb 19, 2006 at 05:16 UTC
Then you probably want to use fork and exec together like this: `# we're in the "main program"... my $child = fork(); die "fork failed: $!" unless ( defined( $child )); if ( $child == 0 ) { # the child process does this: exec( 'other_program', @args ); } # the parent now goes on to do whatever follows, while the child is ru +nning...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Forking seperate processes?
by graff (Chancellor) on Feb 19, 2006 at 05:16 UTC

# we're in the "main program"...

my $child = fork();
die "fork failed: $!" unless ( defined( $child ));
if ( $child == 0 ) {
    # the child process does this:
    exec( 'other_program', @args );
}
# the parent now goes on to do whatever follows, while the child is ru
+nning...
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