On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:17:55PM -0400, Chad Kellerman wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I got a script that I use Parallel::ForkManager, which works
> great...
> the only problem is that I want a child to fork another process and
> Parallel::ForkManager does not allow that.
I've never used this module.
> So for my first fork I use it but in the child I am trying to use the
> normal oreilly FORK but I am missing something stupid.
And I've never heard of an oreilly FORK.
>
> my @list = "bla, bla, bla, bla, bla";
> foreach my $item(@list) {
> my $pid;
> FORK: {
> if ($pid=fork) {
> print"$pid\n";
> }elsif (defined $pid){
> #do other perl stuff to $item
> exit 0;
> } elsif ($! =~/No more process/) {
> sleep 5;
> redo FORK;
> }
> }
> }
>
> What I want to do, is have the fork, process $item before it goes
> onto the next $item. But as it is written it forks every $item in the
> @list.
Yes, that's what you have programmed.
> Just fork, finish, repeat until all $item are done.
>
> Can any offer any suggestions?
I presume there is some reason for doing the fork that you are not
telling us.
Maybe you should be doing a wait() or waitpid().
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