Philip Montgomery wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to run process concurrently from Perl. I
> want the parent to spawn off the children and wait until they are complete
> to continue. I can get the child processes to run in serial, but I need
> them to run in parallel.
>
> The code I am using thus far is
>
> for ($x;$x<4;$x++) {
> if ($pid=fork) {
> } else {
> system "mkdir dir$x";
> for ($i=1;$i<250;$i++) {
> open3(OUTPUT, INPUT, ERRORS, cd dir$x;make clean; make all);
> <code to process the output of the make commands and store into
> log files>
you are forking a child, do a system() call, and execute some more code.
depends on what the "<code to process ...>" portion is, your child process
might(if it doesn't exit) goes back to the for loop and start to fork it's
own child. is that what you want?
david
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