On 6/30/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the parent, I want to redirect STDOUT to 'logfile' then fork. In the
child, I want to print something. That something should end up in the
log file, but it's not working.
my $child = fork();
exit ($child ? parent() : child() );
It's good to check whether the fork returned undef due to a failed fork.
sub parent {
close STDOUT;
open (STDOUT, '>', 'logfile') or die("Couldn't redirect STDOUT: $!\n");
If this happens only in the parent, it won't affect the child, as you've found.
I need to setup the redirection before I fork, but
I shouldn't redirect from within the child,
Why don't you set up the redirection after the fork? Why shouldn't you
do the redirection from the child process? That's how I always do it.
Hope this helps!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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