Jim Conner wrote: > At 20:28 03.25.2002 -0800, Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > >>> Jim Conner wrote: >>> >>>> I suck at this kind of topic but the only way I can think of doing >>>> such a thing is this: >>>> >>>> Use IPC. >>>> >>>> fork off something like 10 children each child working on a separate >>>> file and use sysvmsg sysvshem (I do not believe these are functions >>>> and I can't look the right functions up for you right now but >>>> perldoc perlipc might be of some use) to pass messages back and >>>> forth between the children and the parent to follow what each >>>> process is doing. >>> >>> >>> 'fork' spawns a child process of the parent, doesn't it? >> >> >> I mean the child is a clone of the parent, isn't? > > > Yes; from the point where the fork occurs.
So, how can a new different process by forked? Or, how a function be called and the next step execute without waiting for the previous function to terminate? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]