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a.pl

[lahotip@vnc10 ~]$ cat a.pl

#! /usr/bin/local/perl

 

system "b.pl &";

system "b.pl &";

system "b.pl &";

system "b.pl &";

system "b.pl &";

 

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b.pl

[lahotip@vnc10 ~]$ cat b.pl

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

 

print "hi from b.pl" . "\n";

sleep (60);

 

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Launched as -

 

> ssh <hostname> a.pl

*does not exit and waits for all the 5 b.pl instances to finish, whereas a.pl has exited*