Make your life easy, don't fork... on unix systems, it's ok... on NT it's horrible... it's unreliable, blocking, resource hogging <insert expletives here> anyway, taht's my 2 bits. enough flaming, now for an answer to your question. if you want to fire off multiple processes, i seriously advice you to look into POE (perl object environment) which is basicly a multi threader for perl now, this will take a little bit to wrap your head around, and i'll be more then happy to answer any questions that might come up. take a look at the POE article, which you can read here: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html and of course, all contents, faqs, docs etc are available from poe.perl.org Hope this helps, Jos Boumans "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? > > Regards, > Ron
