On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Randy5235 wrote:
> Pretty new to Perl still so forgive me a bit please. I have searched the web
> (google is my friend) and searched the groups and found multiple things
> concerning fork. here is the problem I can't find a page that has the basic
> syntax for using it. I am writing a small bbs system. I need to be able to
> do several things at the same time eg. check your password while everyone
> else is chatting. If I understand this correctly if I fork the process then
> it will run at the same time as the original process and everyone will be
> able to do their thing?? is this correct? Sorry for the newbie question.
perldoc is also your friend. Perl comes with documentation for just about
everything. Try 'perldoc -f fork' to get the syntax for the funcation
call.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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