Re: Creating a 'load simulator' by calling Perl Programs - or Forking?

pgodfrin <pgodfrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But - the question still remains - what's the best way to call other
perl programs? Exec, system or something else?

I'd do fork and exec. If you want to do something in the child after
the other thing was done, then I'd do fork and system.

Xho

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