On 15/07/04 14:03 +0530, gowthaman ramasamy wrote:
> Hello list,
> Could any one tell me a nice tutorial to learn about fork()ing in perl.

perldoc perlipc
perldoc -f fork
 
> I want to accomplish following task with fork function. But i am not
> sure this can be done with fork()?
> 
> I have a lengthy Perl script running on a 4 processor machine. At one
> point of time i have to execute four shell commands / mysql quries from
> four different batch files. Currently i run them one after other. Can i
> use fork at this place so that i can fire all 4 mysql quries
> simultaneously and collect the results back to main process.

You could do this with fork() in Perl. With a suitably recent Perl, you
can also use threads.

<snip>
> NOTE : I dont want to use Perl-DBI.

Why not?

Devdas Bhagat


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