Re^2: question about running a system and a perl function background

[ikegami]

system 1, is Windows specific fork+exec that works better than fork+exec on Windows. By switching to fork+exec, you've taken a step backwards. system 1, returns the child's pid, so I think your solution could be rewritten to use system 1,.

[graff]

system 1, is Windows specific fork+exec that works better than fork+exec on Windows.

Ah. I was actually wondering about that -- I had never seen "system 1," before and wasn't even sure whether it was a mistake. (I'm blissfully ignorant of most of the Windows-specific extensions to Perl.) Thanks.

[Anonymous Monk]

Hello,

Is  system 1, supposed to return the child's pid? It seems to return -1 when I tested it out. Is there any other windows command that might return the child's pid?

Thanks for the response.

[BrowserUk]

The "piped open" (See perlopentut) returns the pid of the child process.

See also Re^5: question about running a system and a perl function background in this thread for an example of use.

[ikegami]

I believe it should. Have you tried printing "$!" and/or "$^E"? They may give you a meaning the cause of the error.