Jeff Pang schreef: >> 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 $pid;
++$|; defined( my $pid = fork ) or die "Can't fork:$!"; If you follow the thread, you should see that that is what I asked about: 1. What good does a defined() in a void context? 2. Why is there no die()? news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
