> Minor point; this won't catch an error from fork(). If fork() fails,
> it returns undef, and the test:
> (0 == $pid)
> Will be true, even if $pid is undef.
Damn, that's right -- thanks, Bob. *GOOD* point to make.
undef() *always* evaluates to zero in a numeric context such as ==
Rather, I should have said:
if ($pid=fork()) { # I'm the parent
# ... code
} elsif (defined $pid) { # I'm the child
# ... code
} else { # there was an error
# ... code
}
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