At 05:35 PM 6/17/01 -0400, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Can someone shed some light on using fork to spawn 2+ simultaneous process?
>I am reading in allot of logfiles and splitting them into 3 separate arrays.
>Currently I am forking and doing a exec("egrep", "-c", "Err", @array1);
>(yes, ugly but it is just the beginning!) this works well
>if I were to exec one at a time, I would like to fork and send all three
>execs rolling at one. any clues?
Just do three forks, each with its own exec. Then call wait() until
they're all done.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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