Re^2: exec vs. system

Thanks for that reply but system("swap.pl &") seems not to put the process into the background. The master script still waits untill swap.pl is finished.

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Re^3: exec vs. system by jethro (Monsignor) on Jul 07, 2011 at 14:30 UTC
Ah, so you probably are on Windows. At least I never heard of system(1,...) being sensible syntax, so probably this is an extension in your windows perl dialect	[reply]
Re^4: exec vs. system by jpl (Monk) on Jul 07, 2011 at 18:00 UTC
I never heard of system(1,...) being sensible syntax, so probably this is an extension in your windows perl dialect. It would be sensible syntax if there were a command named "`1`" that ran its arguments on processor 1 in the background. I have to hope this is what's going on. Tampering with perl syntax would be too ugly to contemplate.	[reply]