Re: How can I run a piece of code asyncronously in Perl?

[aitap]

in reply to How can I run a piece of code asyncronously in Perl?

TIMTOWTDI:

if (fork==0) {
 exec qw{t1.pl arg1 arg2 arg3};
}

This will fork the program and start your command in the child process (where fork returns 0).

[Anonymous Monk]

This TIMTOWTDI is probably better than the other WTDI. But I'd like to make it clear to the OP that exec() takes a list, so therefore:

exec 't1.pl', $arg1, $arg2, $arg3;

(Well, better in the sense that I cringe whenever something goes through sh -c when not absolutely necessary. It is very easy to introduce a bug that way.)