Re^3: Perl forked processes and variable sharing

your code is hard to read for me, part of the problem is that you used <pre> instead of <code> tags.

> What the child process finds at that passed address is exactly the same value that the parent wrote to that address

when did you write to that address?

If it's prior to forking, the value was copied.

If the effect happens after forking, it could be a bug in COW (at least I wouldn't expect this)

> but after the child writes to that address what happens behind the scenes is that that physical address is not overwritten in place,

I'd say that's pretty much a description of COW = Copy On Write

Cheers Rolf
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Re^4: Perl forked processes and variable sharing
by fireblood (Scribe) on Feb 02, 2022 at 01:23 UTC

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This is a moderately long line of code which I would expect to see flo
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<pre></pre>

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This is a moderately long line of code which I would expect to see flowing all the way across the page.

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Re^5: Perl forked processes and variable sharing

by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Feb 02, 2022 at 08:20 UTC

Hello fireblood,

I had tried enclosing my code in <code></code> tags, but found that all of my lines that were longer than a certain length were flowing onto the next line...

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Just find your Settings Nodelet and choose Display, then under Code List Settings make the value of Code Wrap Length larger (whatever suits your display)¹ — and you can return to using <code> tags with no problems. :-)

¹Update: This only affects your view of the code; other monks see the same code wrapping according to their personal display settings.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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