On 11/8/06, Jen Spinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
print CHILD "printing to child\n";
sleep 5;
Concurrent processes can be counterintuitive at times. Because the
CHILD filehandle is buffered, that line won't necessarily be sent to
the child process right away. In your program, I'd expect it to be
sent only once the filehandle is closed (i.e., when the parent process
exits).
If you use the $| variable, or otherwise flush the output buffer
before sleep, I think you'll get results more to your liking.
Cheers!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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