Title: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Spawning a process
Okay,
if you don't
want to wait on the child processes, what you need is to make each child a
daemon process. Have a look at the POSIX module and in particular the setsid
function, this will detach you child process from its paren
Greetings...
Reference the camel book for information on how to prevent zombies. I run a
dozen applications throughout the day that fork hundreds of times on Solaris
2.6 and 2.8. Only zombies I have ever had is when I killed processes
manually. Fixed my programs and resolved that problem thro
Title: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Spawning a process
I
thought about that. Are you not however taking a chance if the parent does not
wait for the child process to complete? I believe the term is zombies?
In
my case, I want the parent to run to completion and terminate without worrying
about
Title: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Spawning a process
Try,
If I have understood correctly, I think you want "fork", see perlfunc for documentation. That will fork off a child process while allowing the parent to carry on processing.
Steve Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Cost
-start-
> "Costa, Michael J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>at12/17/2001 09:45 AM
>Good Morning All:
>I am using perl on a Sun Solaris server to do data transfer with outside
>companies. With one of the companies I exchange data with, the files must
be
>sent in a particular order. What I want to d
Good Morning All:
I am using perl on a Sun Solaris server to do data transfer with outside
companies. With one of the companies I exchange data with, the files must be
sent in a particular order. What I want to do is when the last file in the
chain is received on my server it will kick-off automa
