Re: fork() with no wait()

2002-04-01 Thread Rob Lee
. So, I thought I'd fork a sub for the FIFO, and have the parent continue on. Is there a better solution? -R On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, drieux wrote: > > assuming that you do this, how are you planning to > reap the child?? > > On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 11:42 , Rob Lee w

fork() with no wait()

2002-04-01 Thread Rob Lee
I'd like to fork my program without waiting for the child to exit. My child will be a sub with an infinite loop, so I'd like the parent to continue on it's merry way. Solutions? -R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Simple regex question

2002-03-30 Thread Rob Lee
I'm parsing a file with multiple Fortran-like blocks that look like: START_KEYWORD line 1 line 2 END_KEYWORD I want only the contents of each block, not the keywords. grep { /START_KEYWORD/.../END_KEYWORD/ } returns the entire block - including t