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Postings from April 2002
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 14:42, Rob Lee wrote:
>
> I'd like to fork my program without waiting for the child to exit.
>
> My child will be a sub with an infinite loop, so I'd like the parent to
> continue on it's merry way.
>
> Solutions?
> -R
<snip herf="perldoc -f fork">
If you "fork" without ever waiting on your chilÂ
dren, you will accumulate zombies. On some sysÂ
tems, you can avoid this by setting "$SIG{CHLD}"
to ""IGNORE"". See also the perlipc manpage for
more examples of forking and reaping moribund
children.
</snip>
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