Re: 'system' and parallel execution (was: Re: How to call a perl script....)

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Wiggins d Anconia wrote:
Not exactly, it has been forked and does technically run in parallel,
however 'system' blocks your current process waiting for the child to
finish, so your process is in fact running, but it won't be doing any
work except for waiting for a signal from the child.
There are other ways to have parallel execution,
perldoc perlipc
perldoc -f fork
perldoc -f system
Ok.  I'll read those in a minute.  After reviewing Learning Perl, I 
realize I need to open the process as a file handle for parallel 
operations.  Called a "piped open". (page 201 Oreilly Learning Perl).

Will get you started. "Network Programming with Perl" by Lincoln Stein
also has excellent chapters on this subject, though lacks a chapter
(probably because of its age) on POE.
 

Haven't purchased that book yet (it's on my amazon wish list however).  
I'll check it out.

Thanks!