Re: Re: They didn't give me a fork so I have to eat with a spawn.

Win32's Perl 5.6.1 does have an emulated fork(), though. Is there something wrong with that?

Yup.

If you try to fork and "spawn" off a bunch of system() calls, you get "Resource temporarily unavailable" after some fairly small number of forks (maybe 20?).

With Win32::Process::CreateProcess, you don't run into that problem.
--
Mike

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Re: Re: Re: They didn't give me a fork so I have to eat with a spawn. by bart (Canon) on Aug 24, 2002 at 09:00 UTC
Good call. BTW you should look into using $^X instead of the hardcoded path to perl.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: They didn't give me a fork so I have to eat with a spawn. by Anonymous Monk on Oct 08, 2002 at 02:00 UTC
will the parent process have to wait until the child complete?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: They didn't give me a fork so I have to eat with a spawn. by RMGir (Prior) on Oct 08, 2002 at 11:55 UTC
If you use ActivePerl's fork, I believe so, since no new process is actually created. If you use CreateProcess, I don't think so. -- Mike	[reply]