Re: how can I start a shell process and return immediately?

Stephen Bannasch wrote:
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> * Thanks 7stud,
>
> IO.popen is interesting, I'm playing with your simple test programs and
> reading chapter 11 in the Pickaxe book.

You can consider the sleep(4) statement in the subprocess as a stand in
for some calculation or task that takes 4 seconds to execute.

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