> I have a Perl sockets app running as a service listening for miscellaneous
> messages, START being one. If it receives a START message it will start an
> application and then continue listening. Once the application is finished
> running I want it to send a signal/message to the service.
>
> I could accomplish this with a second script that acts as a wrapper for the
> application and then sends a message on completion but I wanted to do it all
> within the service by forking the application and then having it signal to the
> parent process upon its completion.
>
> James
I see. We have talked about something similar on one of the
activestate lists a few days ago.
The second forked thread may connect to the first via socket()s and
send a message there.
Try to search the archives for fork().
Jenda
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