On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:14:34PM -0700, Ahmed Moustafa wrote:
Steve Grazzini wrote:
Changes made after the fork() won't be visible in the other process, if that's what you're wondering.
Yes, that's exactly what I am wondering. So, is there a way to assign values to the global variables in the parent process?
No. You'd need to switch to threads or keep the fork and use some kind of IPC.
% perldoc perlipc
Are there threads in Perl?
What is your application doing?
It scans FTP home directories, once it finds a file, it validates the file name, if it is expected or not and then encrypts the file.
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