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in reply to how to run non-waiting background process

I am forced to use perl version 5.6

Ha-ha!

Try Proc::Background or Win32::Process

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Re^2: how to run non-waiting background process
by srlbharu (Acolyte) on Mar 01, 2013 at 08:34 UTC
    But these two modules are not available in perl 5.6 :-(

      But these two modules are not available in perl 5.6 :-(

      What do you mean by that?

Re^2: how to run non-waiting background process
by patcat88 (Deacon) on Mar 02, 2013 at 04:25 UTC
    This is why perl is dead. Here is a free lancer maintaining ancient code last touched in 1998. The next step is PHP for his client.