How to run a 2nd script in background?

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

Hi Fellow monks, I seek your wisdom in solving this problem i have, hehe. I'm have a first script running and i want to add on a call to a second script which does heavy processing which takes up a lot of time. But i want the first script to end when it's done and not to wait for the second script. I've googled up for fork and multi threading, but i still don't have any clear idea on how to do this. Can this be done? ~thanks in advance~

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Re: How to run a 2nd script in background? by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Jan 03, 2008 at 03:23 UTC
Check out the FAQ How do I fork a daemon process?	[reply]
Re: How to run a 2nd script in background? by jonnyfolk (Vicar) on Jan 03, 2008 at 05:44 UTC
Here's one way: `#run script.pl as child process my $pid; my $script = '/myroot/public_html/cgi-bin/script.pl'; if ($pid = fork) { #do something } elsif (defined $pid) { close STDOUT; system $script; } else { die "Major error: $!"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to run a 2nd script in background? by cdarke (Prior) on Jan 03, 2008 at 09:34 UTC
Using system creates another process, exec is more appropriate here. If you are running on Windows you should be aware that fork creates a new thread, not a new process (fork is UNIX architecture). Also (on Windows) to run a script you should prefix the script name with 'perl', since file extension association is done at application, not OS, level. See also Win32::Process and Win32::FetchCommand.	[reply]