Re: Sharing STDIN after fork

The STDIN filehandle is shared between your two processes, and as you already noticed, whatever process comes first reads it all.

You could set a flag to specify, which process should read STDIN, or you could read all of STDIN and then call fork().

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Re^2: Sharing STDIN after fork by Bod (Parson) on Feb 13, 2022 at 22:27 UTC
Thanks Corion Does it make any difference which process is used for which operation or are they interchangeable?	[reply]
Re^3: Sharing STDIN after fork by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 14, 2022 at 06:41 UTC
No, both processes are almost identical - the only difference when they start out is the result of the call to [func://fork]. Usually, the web server will wait for the original program, not the forked copy, to finish before considering the HTTP call complete, so you might want to put long-running stuff into the child. The child process is the one with a zero from `fork()`.	[reply] [d/l]