Re^2: exec() on Windows

Thanks. It worked both as .pl and .exe (pp).

I was trying calling cmd.exe directly to detach child processes without waiting for them, but this way is far much clear.

Strange that "start" with exec() does not work.

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Re^3: exec() on Windows by Corion (Patriarch) on May 26, 2010 at 14:03 UTC
`start` is a "shell builtin" command and does not exist as an external program, which is why it does not work with `exec`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: exec() on Windows by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 26, 2010 at 14:57 UTC
Which means it shouldn't work for `system` either, except `system` is hacked to make this work on Windows. It explicitly behaving differently than documented.	[reply] [d/l] [select]