Re: [MacPerl] Self-updating Perl script ("exec" equivalent)?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 3:04 -0400 1999.08.17, Joshua Juran wrote:
>At 1:45 PM -0400 1999-08-15, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>At 12.40 -0700 1999.08.13, Tom Sackett wrote:
>>>For most housekeeping tasks, this works great. However, I also need,
>>>sometimes, to update the client script itself, which means that client
>>>script has to terminate and be re-launched. This was easy to implement in
>>>Windows using "exec," but I can't find a way to do it in MacPerl.
>>
>>There is no clean way to do it.  Search on the list archives for
>>"launchotherperl.plx".  It is a kludge to make a copy of the MacPerl app,
>>and then launch it with another script.  Under Mac OS, each app can only be
>>running once, so you need copies.  That script might do what you need, even
>>if it takes a bit of modification.
>
>Yuck, it would be cleaner to have a dedicated executable for this.

Depends on the situation.  I designed that code to launch any number of
executables as necessary.  If you only need a set number, the code can be
simplified.  If you need an arbitrary number, then the code needs to be
more complex.

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