run in background from qx//?

[Chris McMahon]

Hi...
This should be easy, but I can't seem to do it. I'm trying to
launch an external process from a Perl script to run in the background on a
FreeBSD system. The process starts fine, but won't run in the background.
I've tried:

qx/<process> <args>&/
qx/<process> <args>\&/
`<process> <args>&`
`<process> <args>\&`
qx/<process> <args>'&'/

etc., and the "&" doesn't seem to be making it from the Perl
script to the shell. (BTW, doing "<process> <args>&" at the shell prompt
works fine.)
Any suggestions about how to launch a process in the background
from a Perl script?
-Chris

[Stefan Lidman]

>Hi...

> This should be easy, but I can't seem to do it. I'm trying to
>launch an external process from a Perl script to run in the background on a
>FreeBSD system. The process starts fine, but won't run in the background.
>I've tried:
>
>qx/<process> <args>&/
> qx/<process> <args>\&/
> `<process> <args>&`
> `<process> <args>\&`
> qx/<process> <args>'&'/
>
> etc., and the "&" doesn't seem to be making it from the Perl
>script to the shell. (BTW, doing "<process> <args>&" at the shell prompt
>works fine.)
> Any suggestions about how to launch a process in the background
>from a Perl script?
>-Chris

system '<process> <args>&';

/Stefan