I am using ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 build 633 on w2k workstation.
--- Scott Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which OS are you using? > -- > Scott Carr > Documentation Maintainer > http://documentation.openoffice.org > OpenOffice.org > > > Quoting prefab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > hello, > > > > there appears to be a limit of 64 processes that > can > > be forked on win32. The following code: > > > > foreach $i (1..1000) { > > if (!defined ($pid = fork())) { > > print "current child process : ".$i."\n"; > > die "cannot fork: $!"; > > } elsif ($pid== 0) { > > # child > > sleep(10); > > exit(0); > > } > > } > > > > produces the following result: > > > > current child process : 65 > > cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable at > > test5.pl line 4. > > > > Does anyone know where this limit comes from and > if it > > is possible to configure a higher number of > threads? > > > > thanks > > prefab > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe: > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
