Bruno oliveira wrote:
>
> Hi!
Hello,
> I want to start a program in perl but i need to keep
> the pid to be able to kill it in the future.
>
> For exmple:
>
> system("top &");
>
> this would start "top", but then i wouldn't be able to
> identify the process in order to kill it. Is there a
> way to do this (other than using fork) ?
defined( my $pid = fork ) or die "Cannot fork: $!";
$pid and exec 'top' or die "Cannot exec 'top': $!";
John
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