Re: exec() on Windows

[lamprecht]

Hi,

system("start", "/B","test.html");

Cheers, Christoph

[vitoco]

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.

[Corion]

start is a "shell builtin" command and does not exist as an external program, which is why it does not work with exec.

[ikegami]

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.