Fork in unix terms means.
To creates a new child process swanned from a parent process. Its used
in a lot in web servers httpd etc..
~ Dale
Don Gould wrote:
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
