> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Calling subroutine every second using alarm fails
> From: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, April 01, 2009 5:48 am
> To: beginners@perl.org
>
>
> I want a script that constantly accepts user input, but runs a
> subroutine every second to do other work.
what I thought is to fork a child to do the stuff.
my $child = fork;
die "cant fork $!" unless defined $child;
if ($child) { # in parent
while(<>) {
# do something
}
} else { # in child
while( some_condition ) {
# do stuff
sleep 1;
}
exit 0;
}
regards,
Jeff.
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