[Pikes-peak-pm] Firing Off Child Processes

[John Evans]

Greetings,
	Things have been dead here for a while. Maybe I can liven stuff up 
with a problem that I'm puzzling over.

I have several datafiles in a directory. I need to process each one, but 
the processing can take anywhere from a few seconds to fifteen minutes. I 
don't want the entire process waiting on a long one while shorter ones are 
in line to be done.

I assume that I need to fire off a child process to handle the actual 
processing, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this. I thought fork() 
was the answer, but it appears (I may be missing something here, though) 
that fork() will only make a new copy of the current program. That's not 
what I'm looking for, but if fork() is the only option that I have, then I 
can make it work.

Are there other ways of doing mutliple processes from a master process?

-- 
John Evans
http://jtevans.kilnar.com/

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