See also: Remote Process Creation and Control - Methods of starting and controlling processes remotely. (telnet, login, rexec, et al.)

Control of the currently running process is covered under Current Process Control - control of the currently running process, longjmp, wait, sleep, argument processing

See also: Local Process Communication - Communication between processes running on the same system. Synchronization. File locking. Signals. FIFOs, pipes, et al

Process Signals and Events - Sending and handling signals and events.

See also: Command Shells and Scripting Languages

See also: Running Process Information - Getting information on running processes.

See also: Debugging and Tracing (utilities, system and library calls which support debugging and tracing)

See also: Process Limits Permission and access restriction (files, resources, etc)

Up to Execution

(Perl delta 5.003 to 5.004) Unsupported function fork No qualified books.

How come exec() doesn't return?

How do I start a process in the background?

How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to complete?

How do I fork a daemon process?

How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?

See Also

(Perl builtin function) exec LIST The exec() function executes a system command AND NEVER RETURNS.

(Perl builtin function) fork Does a fork(2) system call.

(Perl builtin function) system LIST Does exactly the same thing as ``exec LIST'' except that a fork is done first, and the parent process waits for the child process to complete.

p5-Proc-Simple-1.18 perl5 module to launch and control background processes

Proc::WaitState - Functions for interpreting and acting on wait() status values. [Perl] {oss}

Proc::Forkfunc - A simple, robust wrapper around Perl's fork() function. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components