[FWTools] Help with ogr2ogr on windows

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Wed Jun 6 00:58:01 EDT 2007


Chetan Tiwari wrote:
> if(my $pid = fork){
> }
> elsif (defined $pid){
>        close(STDOUT);
>        exec($ogrcmd);
>        exit(0);
> } else{
>        die "Fork Error";
> }
> 
> # End script
> }

As I see, you're not using system() function, but fork + exect.
Better, try to use Perl extension for system() function if you
want to achieve asynchronous call:

system(1, ...)

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net


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