Perl process background windows

Then it looks for that argument in the PATH , searching again with a suffix of ". If you supply a command of multiple arguments, they are combined into a command line using WinShellQuote. The first argument is used as the executable unless you specified the 'exe' option , and gets the same path lookup. When no options are specified, the new process does not inherit any file handles of the current process.

This differs from the Unix implementation, but I'm leaving it this way for back-compat. Any handle not specified will be inherited as-is.

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Students Click Here. I've got a perl script I'd like to run. Its an infinite loop script so starting it and leaving a command prompt open simply does not work for me.

I'd like to be able to include something within the script that simply backgrounds the whole process. I've been pointed to WinProcess, but that doesn't seem like it will work for me. The create process requires that you point it to an executable, and it creates the process out of that This particular project is going to use perl2exe too, so I need to keep everything contained in one file since the hosts this will be run on will not have perl installed. Harshit Srivastava. Mohammad Nauman.

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