david,
actually, without the while loop every user in the array gets forked
at one time. 500+ forks. I put the while loop in and it does one at a
time..
chad
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:28, david wrote:
> Chad Kellerman wrote:
>
> > I have:
> >
> > foreach my $usr (@users) {
> > my $UsrPid;
> > unless ($UsrPid = fork) {
> > while fork {
> > do stuff
> > exit 0;
> > }
> > exit 0;
>
> i don't understand why you need another 'while fork' here.
> thte parent goes into the while loop, do stuff and then exit. the child
> process simply ignore the while loop and then immediately exit. the child
> does nothing. the 'while fork' seems unecessary.
>
> david
>
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