I rarely use 'exec' but i believe the parent script just exits . here is
some more from the docs:
Since it's a common mistake to use "exec" instead of "system",
Perl warns you if there is a following statement which isn't
"die", "warn", or "exit" (if "-w" is set - but you always do
that). If you *really* want to follow an "exec" with some other
statement, you can use one of these styles to avoid the warning:
exec ('foo') or print STDERR "couldn't exec foo: $!";
{ exec ('foo') }; print STDERR "couldn't exec foo: $!";
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or maybe i am not understaning you correctly. could you be talking about
fork -> exec?
HTH
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:08 AM
> To: 'Kipp, James'; 'Perl'
> Subject: RE: Calling another perl script
>
>
> I understand this. However may concern is what is the parent app doing
> while the exec program runs. I know it returns nothing and dumps to
> shell when its finished but when is the first program
> released? Maybe I
> am not understanding you it is rather early :-)
>
>
>
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