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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