Thanks, David and Shlomi (and those that read), I understand fork() and the style of writing better. Strange that the defaults for 'use English' are not optimal.
The snippet below works to fork as a specific user, if run as root. However, it generates zombies. The functions wait() or waitpid() seem to be available to use to stop that, but if I insert either of them in the outer while loop, only one client can connect at a time. What modification can prevent zombies yet allow multiple concurrent clients to attach? Regards, Lars ----- while ( my $client = $server->accept() ) { $EUID = $priv_sep_uid; my $pid = fork(); unless ( $pid ) { print qq(\tforked as $PROCESS_ID\n); while ( my $input = <$client> ) { 1; } exit( 0 ); } } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/