in reply to Re^7: Perl Daemons and SIGHUP
in thread Perl Daemons and SIGHUP

You don't know your process has "vanished" since you have not ascertained it even started.

You seem to think exec creates a new process when it doesn't. It replaces the program being executed by the current process.

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Re^9: Perl Daemons and SIGHUP
by mje (Curate) on Feb 25, 2010 at 10:12 UTC

    You are correct of course and I am aware of that. What I meant to emphasize is that the OP has not checked the exec worked.

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