Want to run a script and not wait for return

[barryk]

In a BaCon program, I want to execute a script, and not wait until it ends.

I am wondering whether this is OK, or whether it might have some undesirable consequences:

SYSTEM "myscript &"

Anyone got any thoughts on this, or some other way to do it? In C, could run fork() then exec()?

[vovchik]

Dear Barry,

I think you can simply use Bacon's own FORK implementation. I have attached a little prog of mine that uses it to give you an idea.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Attachments:

bleeper.bac.tar.gz (1.32 KB)

[alexfish]

hi all

may be worth a try exec(blagh ...)

with
nohup execfile &

always read the ouput
to see this reply if any other than @
[1] 10537
"nohup: ignoring input and appending output to ‘nohup.out’" <<< this bit
kill  this
[1] 10537
man nohup for types


BR
Alex


[barryk]

Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. I tested this in my program:

SYSTEM "myscript &"

and it works fine. The "&" runs the script as a separate process, and the bacon program continues on it's merry way.