Re^2: launching external program with SYSTEM causes script to hang until program closed

That's great for UNIX-y systems.

fork() uses threads.pm on Windows, so (in some situations) you may wish to use Win32::Process::Create() instead.

-David

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Re^3: launching external program with SYSTEM causes script to hang until program closed (system 1) by tye (Sage) on Sep 27, 2007 at 04:12 UTC
Even easier on Win32 is `system( 1, $cmd )`. It is unfortunate that this easy way to "spawn" (which the Perl C code knows how to do portably) was never exposed for Perl scripts to do portably. - tye	[reply] [d/l]