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 fro
---Original Message-
From: Costa, Michael J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:42 PM
To: 'Steve Aaron'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Spawning a process
I thought about that. Are you not however taking a chance if the parent
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
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> "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
