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

will the parent process have to wait until the child complete?

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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]