> -----Original Message----- > From: Agustin Rivera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:27 PM > To: Hanson, Robert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SEND > > > Ok, thanks. But now you've made me curious about fork.. > > You can make the two processes of a fork talk to each other? > How? I've > tried setting a variable in the child and printing in the > parent, but that > didn't work.
Processes can't access one another's memory, so you need to use some form of IPC (interprocess communication). Examples are pipes, signals, shared memory, message queues, semaphores These are discussed at length in perldoc perlipc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
