I've seen reference to fork in a number of posts now and don't understand what it means.

Could someone give a 10 word heads up?

Cheers Don

Dale DuRose wrote:
What i think you need to do is try and fork the process and kill the child after x amount of time.

How this links helps.
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/learn/ch14_04.htm


HappyEvilSlosh wrote:
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 21:07 +1300, Dale DuRose wrote:
The program your executing form perl do you need its output?

Yes, I'm currently thinking I may limit the output and thus sidestep
this problem.

--Slosh



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