On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:59:17AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Kohli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you eXplain the use of this line in perl
> $SIG{CHLD} = sub {wait ()};

IPC baba 

it is used to set the signal header for child process telling it to wait()
when a child recives SIGCHLD. so that it dsnt end up as zombie.

> what does this do.....
> this is used in an eXample for a fork call in perl...

Pankaj
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