On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, 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?
One of those glorious bits of "man page" arcana....
$ man perlfunc
/zombie
If you "fork" without ever waiting on your children, you will
accumulate zombies.
Now you know what is wrong with schooling today...
("man fork" is actually more helpful...)
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