in reply to Re: How do I get the child's data?
in thread How do I get the child's data?

Thanks, this looks like what I ought to do. I don't really understand
print "$$: ", int rand 0x7FFFFFFF, "\n";
Could someone explain that bit?

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Re: Re: Re: How do I get the child's data?
by BazB (Priest) on Jun 15, 2002 at 14:14 UTC
    print "$$: ", int rand 0x7FFFFFFF, "\n";

    ...Is just some random data to show that your child process is doing something.
    $$ is the process ID of a process (in this case the child process).

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