Actually, it is a *NIX thing. There are non-blocking ways to reap children, at least in most modern *NIX systems. You probably also want to look at the documentation for the wait() function. It may explain why your experiment appeared to work. Anybody know how to do non-blocking waits in perl? I couldn't find anything, unless system() is used somehow. Thanx, Smiddy
-----Original Message----- From: Chas Owens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:08 PM To: Ahmed Moustafa Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to thread in Perl? I wrote some experimental code and it looks like you don't have to reap the children (maybe this is just a C thing). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
