Re^2: DDJ Test for Perl

system implicitly forks and execs. If you want to "launch a child process to run a program", then fork is half the solution.

Comment on Re^2: DDJ Test for Perl

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: DDJ Test for Perl by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2007 at 04:37 UTC
Your bias is showing. system implicitly forks and execs. On my computer, system does neither of those.	[reply]
Re^4: DDJ Test for Perl by runrig (Abbot) on Aug 28, 2007 at 16:39 UTC
Your bias is showing. Fair 'nuff. On my computer, system does neither of those. I run perl on Unix and Windows...but yeah, I guess I do still have a bias :-)	[reply]