[CLUE-Tech] PERL Q

[Geek Boi]

Have you looked at fork()?  

On Friday 01 June 2001 04:49 pm, you wrote:
> I want to something in PERL, that on the surface appears to be a really
> bad idea, but, hey, it's my machine, so what if I slam the CPU into the
> wall.
>
> I want to spawn another process.  I want to start another PERL running,
> before mine is finished.  I don't want to wait for it.  I don't care about
> its output.  I just want to start it and go on.  The idea being that my
> one process will spawn lots more, and each of those will spawn more, and
> so on, until the machine is glowing from the cpu load.  I looked at
> system() and it waits.  I looked at exec(), but it kills off my current
> script, from what I can tell.  If there is not a nice way to do this, I
> will let it single thread, but since I expect my network bandwidth to run
> out before my CPU, I would like to hit as many remote sites as possible.
>
> It should get utterly slammed, but that it the fastest way to do this.
>
> BTW, this is for the LinuxLOC project.
>
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