On 4/4/07, Igor Sutton Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip
unless (fork) {
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The fork function has three returns: undef, zero, and non-zero. It returns 0 to the child and a pid that is non-zero to the parent on success or undef to the parent on failure. It is important to catch this error: my $pid = fork; die "fork failed" unless defined $pid; unless ($pid) { -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/