Parent process variables inside Child process in Perl

Question

• I have a script execute.pl and it calls child.pl through system call.
• I am creating an object of AppLogger in execute.pl
• This AppLogger is package and an interface to my Scribe Logging server

• Now in this AppLogger I am establishing a connection to my Scribe Logging server and has various funtions like sendlog which sends logs to server.

  execute.pl:

  use AppLogger;
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  my $logger = new AppLogger;
  system("perl child.pl")
  

As I know system is a OS call and child.pl will be completly different process but still Is there a way I can access $logger ie AppLogger object inside child.pl without re-creating an connection object each time I want to log.

Answer 1

No. system is a wrapper around fork+exec+wait. exec replaces the program executing in the process, including its heap (memory).