I'm kind of looking for some brainstorming here, my problem is this. I have a perl script that runs some various commands as part of a test harness, one of them gets hung but only when the perl script is run as a background process. I would like to set my script so that if its running as a background process then skip that test, otherwise run it, but I am unsure what is the best way to tell if the script is being run in the background.
In looking at Proc::Background I thought it might be able to do it by that, but I didn't see an obvious way to check if the process itself was being run in the background. It seemed plausible that I might be able to check and see if the process had a parent, but when I run a process in the background its not really forked, at least from what I can tell.
Has anyone tried something similar to this before? I'd like to get some ideas and see what I can figure out, its a good mental exercise.
Thanks!

In reply to Is Process Running In The Background? by gokuraku

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