Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If I want to run a code in background, do I need to fork another
> program, or it is possible to fork a subroutine from the same
> program that uses the fork function?
>
You can do whatever you want in the child.
defined (my $pid = fork)
or die "couldn't fork: $!";
if ($pid == 0) {
#
# child does its stuff
#
exit;
}
# parent continues here
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Steve
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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