forking perl

2002-01-29 Thread charles
hello all, i am thinking of adding the ability to fork into a script i've written recently. the script acts on a list of nodes. currently it does this, one at a time, which could prove to be a lengthy process for longer lists. i was thinking that fork would allow me to spawn child pids and

Re: forking perl

2002-01-29 Thread Tanton Gibbs
) ) { #do subroutines here on $devices[i..i+$N] } else { die Could not fork!\n; } } - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perl Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: forking perl hello all, i am thinking of adding the ability to fork