Re: Problems forking -- fork DOSes my comp

2003-12-10 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Dec 10, 2003, at 4:52 PM, Dan Anderson wrote: I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I had everything down: #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $counter = 1; my $pid = 0; while ($counter < 50) { if ($pid = fork) { open ("FORKED", ">./fork/$counter

Re: Problems forking -- fork DOSes my comp

2003-12-10 Thread david
Dan Anderson wrote: > I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I > had everything down: > > #! /usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $counter = 1; > my $pid = 0; > > while ($counter < 50) { > if ($pid = fork) { > open ("FORKED", ">./fork/$count

Re: Problems forking -- fork DOSes my comp

2003-12-10 Thread Dan Anderson
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 17:04, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Dec 10, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Dan Anderson wrote: > > > I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I > > had everything down: > > Still don't believe me about Network Programming with Perl, eh? Did I > mention

Re: Problems forking -- fork DOSes my comp

2003-12-10 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Dec 10, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Dan Anderson wrote: I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I had everything down: Still don't believe me about Network Programming with Perl, eh? Did I mention that it covers forking well? Basic idea of fork: if ($pid = fork()) {

Problems forking -- fork DOSes my comp

2003-12-10 Thread Robert Brown
Dan Anderson writes: > I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I > had everything down: > > #! /usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $counter = 1; > my $pid = 0; > > while ($counter < 50) { > if ($pid = fork) { > open ("FORKED", "

Problems forking -- fork DOSes my comp

2003-12-10 Thread Dan Anderson
I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I had everything down: #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $counter = 1; my $pid = 0; while ($counter < 50) { if ($pid = fork) { open ("FORKED", ">./fork/$counter") or die("COULD NOT OPEN FORK"); pri