[Omaha.pm] Perl, fork, and waitpid()

[Dave Burchell]

2009/4/19 Dan Linder <dan at linder.org>

> What I'd like to do is have the parent process fork a number of children
> processes and wait for one to complete, then start another child to work on
> the next remaining subroutine.


So you'd like to have x child processes running at any given time?  Will all
the child processes be doing the same sort of work?

I would think "wait" (rather than "waitpid") should fit the bill, as "wait"
should return the PID of whatever child exited most recently, right?

-- 
Dave Burchell
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