Tim and Satish,
At the top of the GetOptions() documentation is the statement that it is
for _options_, things that may or may not be included on the command line.
The = merely says that _if_ the optional argument was specified, it needs
to have a value.
Merrill
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OK, here's what I'm trying to do:
I am trying to write a script that will be given a command, and that script
is to run that command on a number of other remote machines in parallel, then
collect the STDOUTs from these remote executions and report back to the user
running my script.
Let's assu
On Windows, forks and threads have similar start-up overheads and memory
requirements since they are implimented with the same underlying mechanism.
However, Unix has a real fork(). So how does forking a process compare in
start-up time and memory requirements as compared to creating a new thre
