in reply to Re^2: Perl System('') question
in thread Perl System('') question

close $eject; will wait for the child to end (after closing pipes to the child?) If you wish to save it from doing extra work, you could ask it to end by sending a TERM signal to it before calling close. The return value of open '-|' is the child's PID.

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Re^4: Perl System('') question
by Skeeve (Parson) on Nov 29, 2008 at 23:44 UTC

    ++ to both of you! I didn't think about that yet.

    s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
    +.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e
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