On Sun, 2006-09-04 at 18:10 +0200, Dr.Ruud wrote: > If the childs stopped earlier, and their PIDs got reused, you would kill > wrong processes in this way.
That's why you have to keep accurate track of which processes are yours. Most of the time this is not a problem since the PIDs will only get recycled some 60_000 processes later. Unless your Perl program runs all the time, this is a minor concern. And it is also why many programmers rely on UNIX to send a HUP to all the child processes when a process stops. UNIX doesn't get this wrong. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
