[sf-perl] Spawning external program within Perl

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I did try exec() and system().  However, exec() stops my calling program 
> while system() waits for the called program to finish.

If you do system("progname &");, is that satisfactory?  Note the "&" I 
added; that asks the shell to background the job.

-- Asheesh.

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