in reply to Weirdness with fork and exec

You should either make a SIGCHLD handler, or just tell Perl to ignore SIGCHLD messages by putting $SIG{CHLD}='IGNORE'; at the top of your program.

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Re: Re: Weirdness with fork and exec
by batkins (Chaplain) on Jun 12, 2003 at 01:24 UTC
    Many thanks! Worked like a charm!