[CLUE-Tech] PERL Q

[Grant Johnson]

Tim Russell wrote:
> 
> What about fork?  That's the way you do it in C.
> 
> You call fork() and look at the return value - the parent gets one
> value, and the child gets another.  Both run at the same time.
> 
> I think a "while (true) fork()" would do the trick for you...
> 
> Tim
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Unfortunately, fork() makes it a chile process.  These are very much
"fire and forget."  I want the first process to be able to stop running,
and leave everything else going without causing zombies.  I may look at
fork() followed by exec().