david,

    actually, without the while loop every user in the array gets forked
at one time.  500+ forks.  I put the while loop in and it does one at a
time..

chad

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:28, david wrote:
> Chad Kellerman wrote:
> 
> > I have:
> > 
> > foreach my $usr (@users) {
> >       my $UsrPid;
> >       unless ($UsrPid = fork) {
> >             while fork {
> >                   do stuff
> >                   exit 0;
> >             }
> >             exit 0;
> 
> i don't understand why you need another 'while fork' here.
> thte parent goes into the while loop, do stuff and then exit. the child 
> process simply ignore the while loop and then immediately exit. the child 
> does nothing. the 'while fork' seems unecessary.
> 
> david
> 
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