Re: Executing independet commands in PERL

You are going to need to fork a process that performs the ping and then in the parent you should be able to examine the log file.
If you are using ActiveState perl 5.6 then Take a look at this
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Re: Re: Executing independet commands in PERL by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 04, 2001 at 16:36 UTC
Of course, it's still to note that the `fork()` implementation of ActiveState Perl, while amazing, does not yet work correctly, as the Win32 API dosen't support `fork()` in a native way. It's easy to break `fork`ing programs by passing sockets to your children. If you don't need to pass information between your parent and child process, it might be easier to use `system()` calls to start new instances of the child script(s)...	[reply]

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Re: Re: Executing independet commands in PERL
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 04, 2001 at 16:36 UTC

Of course, it's still to note that the fork() implementation of ActiveState Perl, while amazing, does not yet work correctly, as the Win32 API dosen't support fork() in a native way. It's easy to break forking programs by passing sockets to your children.

If you don't need to pass information between your parent and child process, it might be easier to use system() calls to start new instances of the child script(s)...

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