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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 in just a few lines of code? I’ve looked at perldoc for the system command, but it doesn’t seem to do what I want..
See system in perlport: “
system(1,@args)spawns an external process and immediately returns its process designator, without waiting for it to terminate…(Win32)”