in reply to ClearCase Programming

The problem is not that the setview command hasn't completed, it's that it is running in a child process, and is not affecting the calling process at all. You need to arrange to have your perl script called from an environment where setview has already been done.

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Re^2: ClearCase Programming
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2008 at 11:32 UTC
    I accept your view. But what i want is wait till the child process ends and then continue running the calling (parent process).
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      Then you'll either want to use fork and waitpid or one of the many Fork modules on cpan that do that for you, such as Parallel::ForkManager.
      My criteria for good software:
      1. Does it work?
      2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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      Using system() to execute the command does make the script wait until it's finished. Read it in the docs: system
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