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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Can anybody tell me what the status of fork()
is on windows?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a program I am trying to port from Linux to
Windows. The program uses quite a few fork()s. The basic structure is something
like this:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for (;;)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>{</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> my $pid=fork;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> unless ($pid)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> {</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> #Do something
here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
exit;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> }</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> my $pid2=fork;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> unless ($pid2)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> {</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> #do something
else here</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
exit;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> }</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> my $pid3=fork;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> unless ($pid3)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> {</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> #And do
something different again here..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
exit;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> }</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
sleep($an_arbitrary_amount);</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> kill
('USR1',$pid2);</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Under Perl V5.6.1, is the fork function able to
handle this, or do I need to use Win32::Process to create distinct processes for
each child? I have heard that windows doesn't fork very well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And what about the kill(USR1)? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Regards,<BR>
Leigh<BR> <BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>