in reply to Parallel processing, sort of

Why do you need eval? Am I missing something? 

if ($pid = fork) {
     # parent
} elsif (defined($pid)) {
     exec "display -title %d/%f $fullfile";
} else {
     warn "Cannot fork: $!";
}

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Re: Re: Parallel processing, sort of
by mephit (Scribe) on Sep 13, 2002 at 19:05 UTC
    Why do you need eval? Am I missing something?
    I guess that I don't. I more-or-less took that code directly from the Tk chatterbox client without really reading up on fork, and noticing the Camel's examples using  if ($pid == fork) ... Bad programmer! No pr0n for you! Ah, well, code and learn, or some junk. Thanks for the replies, all.

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