To my knowledge the only limit is what your OS can handle. On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 14:53, perl wrote: > Is there a limit to the number of children in Perl? > > > "Ahmed Moustafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > 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? > > > > > > The main loop looks for files which are sent via FTP. Once a file is on > > the server, it should be encrypted. The encryption process is slow so > > some files stay as plain text waiting for their turns to be found and > > encrypted. > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Today is Setting Orange the 12nd day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 Grudnuk demand sustenance!
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