If you are using a unix system, the fork function may help you.
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From: Tielman Koekemoer (TNE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:14 AM
To: Perl Beginners
Subject: To Thread or not?
Hi all,
I need to execute a shell command in a loop but the shell command
takes about 1 minute to complete. I want to execute the shell command
but but then continue processing. Usually I would "background" the
process with & but this does not work as Perl waits for the process to
exit before returning. Should I be using Thread to do this or is there
another way?
I can write a shell script which then has the & included but that's
messy and I want to keep it clean.
E.g.
While (1) {
Some processing here..
` execute some shell script/command here`; # takes about 60 seconds to
complete
Would like to start processing as soon as the above command is
executed...
}
TIA!
Tielman Koekemoer
IT Solution Delivery - NFMS
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