I'm trying to change the ownership and permissions on a file but using
unless (`chown root:root $working_file`) {
do_something
}
Throws an "illegal seek" error. The only other alternative is to stat a
file owned by root to get the uid etc, and then use perl's in built
chown function to change
System will fork a second shell process from the parent and wait for a
response when the child process exits (which sounds like what you want).
This is not so efficient as exec which kills the parent process.
For system:
my $return = system (my_script, my_argument);
Will start a child process an
