>>>>> ""Mr" == "Mr Shawn H Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Mr> That's why you have to keep accurate track of which processes are yours. "Mr> Most of the time this is not a problem since the PIDs will only get "Mr> recycled some 60_000 processes later. Unless your Perl program runs all "Mr> the time, this is a minor concern. PIDs go up to 30,000, at least on some systems. And some systems randomly generate PIDs, so it could possibly be reused on the very next process. "Mr> And it is also why many programmers rely on UNIX to send a HUP to all "Mr> the child processes when a process stops. UNIX doesn't get this wrong. Huh? What UNIX system does this? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
