I've got two functions, each of which I want to run in the background monitoring user behavior. The functions themselves work fine; however, I cannot seem to figure out how to invoke both of them to do work at the same time. In UNIX I would simply use fork() and be done with it, but I am struggling with PS.
#start-job -ScriptBlock $(func1)
#start-job -ScriptBlock $(func2)
Because the functions each run in an infinite while, the second line is not actually getting called, only the first function is actually doing any work.
I have tried using start-job, invoke-command, start-process, and the start method in [diagnostics.process]. My gut tells me that I am not correctly understanding what start-job does, because if it did run func1 in a background process, then there's no reason this top level script should be blocked. Any help would be appreciated!
Use this syntax ${function:Function-Name} to reference the definition of a function:
$job1 = Start-Job -ScriptBlock ${function:func1}
$job2 = Start-Job -ScriptBlock ${function:func2}