[Pdx-pm] forking

Michael G Schwern schwern at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 13:26:24 PST 2007


Tom Phoenix wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Michael G Schwern <schwern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Nope, still don't see it.  Maybe someone can draw a map of the joke?
> 
> Maybe it's because, for each time $test_target is true, another child
> process falls into the parent process's code...?

*light bulb!*

Thank you, Tom.  You're better than AAA.

Stuff like this just adds to my conviction that the fork() interface sucks.
http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/pdx-pm-list/2006-December/003945.html


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