Can you send a chunk of code so we can see what you are trying to do? In
the meantime, look in Camel III Chapter 16 (Interprocess
Communication) and perlipc perldoc for examples of correct forking. Also,
there are some examples in chapters 16 & 17 in the Perl Cookbook of
forking child processes.
--Curt
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dexter Coehlo wrote:
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> Hi fellow dbiusers,
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> I have pulled emails(from my opt in list I may add) from a MySql db.
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> Waht I wanted was to have a seperate process , say a child process after
> forking send out emailsthen exit while the parent would give a "Done"
> confirmation screen so that the admin wouldnt have to wait a long time for
> that screen and possibly time out(of course I could print the emails to
> screen).
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> What I am getting the the confirmation screen being displayed after all
> the emails are sent like there is not 2 seperate processes happening but
> there is. I would like the child process to continue should the parent
> which displays the "Emails sent " screen discontinue and i believe that
> what should happen.
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> Thanks
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> Dexter
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