srlbharu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to start a background process in a perl script (on Windows). In other words, I don't want the script to wait for the child process to complete before regaining control. Is there an easy way to do this? I've looked at perldoc for the system command, but it doesn't seem to do what I want.. FYI.. I am forced to use perl version 5.6 and hence cannot use Win32::Job or Proc::Daemon. From perldoc, Threads have been deprecated in this version. I tried to use old version of threads Thread.pm. But.. Error I got.. This perl was built for "ithreads", which currently does not support Thread.pm I tried to use fork but the child process never starts and the parent immediately terminates with error below: Bizarre SvTYPE 37 at line 121. Signal SEGV at line 80 Any other ways to do?
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Re: how to run non-waiting background process
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 01, 2013 at 15:05 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 03, 2013 at 16:27 UTC | |
Re: how to run non-waiting background process
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 01, 2013 at 08:06 UTC | |
by srlbharu (Acolyte) on Mar 01, 2013 at 08:45 UTC | |
Re: how to run non-waiting background process
by dasgar (Priest) on Mar 01, 2013 at 14:48 UTC | |
Re: how to run non-waiting background process
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2013 at 08:04 UTC | |
by srlbharu (Acolyte) on Mar 01, 2013 at 08:34 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2013 at 15:22 UTC | |
by patcat88 (Deacon) on Mar 02, 2013 at 04:25 UTC |