> >I still don't understand what the line > >>>> defined(my $pid = fork); > >is supposed to do. What does it do better than just > > my $pid = fork;
You should please always do an judgement for the 'fork' call's returning value. It would be better: my $pid = fork; die "can't fork:$!" unless defined $pid; HTH -- Jeff Pang NetEase AntiSpam Team http://corp.netease.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
