> Jim Conner wrote: > >> I suck at this kind of topic but the only way I can think of doing >> such a thing is this: >> >> Use IPC. >> >> fork off something like 10 children each child working on a separate >> file and use sysvmsg sysvshem (I do not believe these are functions >> and I can't look the right functions up for you right now but perldoc >> perlipc might be of some use) to pass messages back and forth between >> the children and the parent to follow what each process is doing. > > > 'fork' spawns a child process of the parent, doesn't it?
I mean the child is a clone of the parent, isn't? > >> >> Anyone else? Im shooting in the dark really. >> >> - Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
