[Sort of ot]: Perl Fork and Exec...

[Cliff]

I'm not sure if this is any help as IANAE, but...would using open() and 
close() avoid the issue of forking a new shell thus allowing you to kill 
the child process you really want?

This snippet loads a simple utility to convert the formatting of text files.

    $pid = fork();
    if ($pid == 0)
    {
        $fileconverter = "/usr/local/bin/strp -u";

        # Convert the inputfile to unix text vs. mac or windows text format
        open(FCONV,"$fileconverter $fulldir/$inputfile|");
        close(FCONV);
    }


Cliff


Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Friday 10 January 2003 15:49, Scholz Matthew wrote:
>  
>
>> it's wierd, confusing, and
>>extremely aggravating.  It also has nothing really to
>>do with linux.  It's purely a perl problem, or so it
>>appears.  *sigh*
>>    
>>
>
>Not even that.  It's a shell problem.  You are sending a
>signal to the shell created by exec(), and what happens
>to child processes of that shell varies with the shell
>configuration.  For csh see hup/nohup.
>For bash I can't help (I never did figure out signal
>handling in bash).
>
>  
>

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