Help me with PERL !!!

[voum]

Can u guys help me with PERL? My problem is quite simple : I want to create a new process in a PERL program and pass it arguments. It is something like this :

system('/MyDir/MyProg.pl $arg1 $arg2 &');

I don't know what's wrong with this! So if u've got an idea I will be glad if share it with me...

[eskimo]

maybe this might help :
$stat = system($program, $arg1, $arg2);
die "$program died: $?" unless $stat == 0;

cheerio
eSkImO

[voum]

Well I thank you for the tip. But more precisely, what I'm looking for is :

--> creating a child process with arguments
--> that the parent process doesn't wait for the ending of its child
--> when the child is ended he terminates himself

I think it's possible but I can't grab the right command...

[jparker[]]

Not too sure about "Perl", but, concept that you're looking for is called "forking". In C, when you fork() a process the child acts as an indepdent process from the parent, inheriting the parents permissions. Maybe with that you'll be able to search http://www.google.com for a tutorial, or information on how to fork() processes in Perl

[smk]

heres the info at perl monks (http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=perlfunc:fork).

but beware of zombies!!