Tagore Smith wrote: > Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > > >>So, how can a new different process by forked? Or, how a function be >>called and the next step execute without waiting for the previous >>function to terminate? >> > > For your original question (threads) see perldoc perlthrtut. > > When you fork a child process the call to fork returns the child pid to > the parent and 0 to the child. So you can write code that tests the return > value and does one thing in the parent process (continue forking children to > deal with the rest of your files) and another in the child process (process > the current file). You can also use exec to execute another process which is > not a "clone" of the parent. > > See perldoc -f fork and perldoc -f exec. > > Out of curiosity, why do you want to do this?
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