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Re^2: system() does not waitby GrandFather (Saint) |
| on Nov 30, 2005 at 15:49 UTC ( [id://513101]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Although System performs a fork, it then waits until the child process has completed and returns the exit status of the child process. OP's expectation is reasonable, there is something more subtle going on. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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