Re^2: Reading from Many Child Processes using Pipes

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Spot on AnonymousMonk. Thank you for giving me a much needed pointer.

I'm curious why you used a select in the child code where I used sleep. Is there an advantage of using select over sleep? Or was it just for simulating random sleep for this example?

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Re^3: Reading from Many Child Processes using Pipes by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2015 at 19:22 UTC
From perldoc -f sleep : "sleep Causes the script to sleep for (integer) EXPR seconds" I wanted fractional second sleeps, which select provides, without having to use Time::HiRes	[reply]

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