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Date: 01/30/99
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>
> Is there any way of pursuading the 'exec' / 'system' functions to shell off a
> command and run it in background?
>
> At the moment if I do:
>
> exec( "/usr/local/bin/reconf system.dat" );
>
> The calling script sits there and waits for 'reconf' to finish (which take
> aroun 3 minutes :-( - I've tried 'tricking it with a simple:
>
How about
exec("perl -e 'exec /usr/local/bin/reconf system.dat'");
That will cause the perl process to launch reconf and perl should exit. No
idea if it would work and if it did I would call it a kludge, but wtf.
-mark
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