[sf-perl] not understanding program behavior with alarm()

David Alban extasia at extasia.org
Fri Feb 3 16:08:36 PST 2012


hmmm...  then i should probably fork() first... ?

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org> wrote:
> Perl's system() call performs a fork() on the specified process,
>
> you might want to try exec() instead..

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