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Ilya,

Great article, really useful. I think cybear was joking btw.

One thing that tripped me up when trying to send multiple processes to a series of ttys: DB::get_fork_TTY is called from the child, after the fork. So, this won't work:

{ 
my $ttyno = 1;
sub DB::get_fork_TTY{
    $DB::fork_TTY = "/dev/pts/" . $ttyno++;
}
}
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because the $ttyno is in separate processes. Instead, redefine your $ttyno after the fork:

use vars $ttyno;

for my $fork (0 .. $forks) {
    if (fork) {

    } else {
        # in child
        $ttyno = $fork;
    }
}

sub DB::get_fork_TTY {
    $DB::fork_TTY = "/dev/pts/" . $main::tty;
}
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dave hj~

In reply to Re: Debugging Perl scripts which use fork() by dash2
in thread Debugging Perl scripts which use fork() by IlyaM

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