in reply to Stuttering Children

I can't remember the exact details; but IIRC on solaris the child needs to call POSIX::_exit() rather than exit() to stop shared file handles being messed up somehow.

Dave.

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Re^2: Stuttering Children
by cmv (Chaplain) on Sep 20, 2014 at 01:23 UTC
    dave_the_m

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried that and it doesn't seem to make a difference.

    A colleague of mine discovered this bug report however it is listed for linux.

    I'm still mining the web for help on this, any pointers appreciated.

    Thanks

    Craig

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      Well you could completely avoid the issue by reading all of __DATA__ into a var before forking (assuming its a DATA issue)
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        Yes, good suggestion. I believe this is what I will have to do.

        Does anybody know if this is a bug in Perl, or just a wonky Perl-OS interaction?

        Are there any other related things I need to worry about from the kids perspective when I exec?

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