RE: [Perl-unix-users] Hard Total amount of Forks

2002-04-10 Thread Martin Moss
Thanks Guys, It looks like I need SIGCHLD & a little bit of waitpid, Regards Marty > -Original Message- > From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday 10 April 2002 13:59 > To: Martin Moss > Cc: Perl-Unix-Users > Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users

Re: [Perl-unix-users] Hard Total amount of Forks

2002-04-10 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Martin Moss wrote: > All, > > I wish to add forking to a script I wrote. > However I wish to ensure that only a configurable number of 'children' are > created. > > forking is no problem, > Queuing up things to be forked I can do, > > However is there an easy way to create a hard total, I was

[Perl-unix-users] Hard Total amount of Forks

2002-04-10 Thread Martin Moss
All, I wish to add forking to a script I wrote. However I wish to ensure that only a configurable number of 'children' are created. forking is no problem, Queuing up things to be forked I can do, However is there an easy way to create a hard total, I was thinking the only way is to have each fo