Re: Executing System Program

I would go with the good old fork() and exec() method.
e.g.
if (fork()) {
1;
}
else {
exec("do something");
}

Greg Meckes wrote:
> 
> Greetings, I have the following task:
> 
> I have to run a Perl script to run spawn multiple processes on a Linux server. The issue is that
> each process is huge and may take a while to run.
> 
> I simply want my program to run, then start process 1 and let it run in the background, then
> immediately start process 2 etc.


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