in reply to Re^6: Win32::Job::watch vs. system(1,...)
in thread Win32::Job::watch vs. system(1,...)

Okay. Looking back at the code on my archive CD from my old machine, the one time I had occasion to use Win32::Job, I encountered the same problem and fixed it by adding these 5 lines to Job.xs: 

void
run_nw(self)
    JOB_T self
    CODE:
    resume_threads(aTHX_ self->procs );

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If you add that and rebuild, you can start the job asynchronously by calling $job->run_nw when you've set the job up.

Sorry for not putting two and two together from your earlier posts ... um, earlier.

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