Hi,

if you fork a perl script which does have all to process the job it should be quite easy as you don't need to exec and you do have everything in hands. Anything you set up before fork is also accessible in the child. Be careful. Memory usage is multiplied.

There a some points you have to be aware of:

• Childs inherit open io handles. If you don't need them close them in childs.
• If you have a DBI handle the childs inherit it. The DESTROY handler of DBI is shutting down the connection when childs exit. So look at manpage of DBI concerning DBI and forking.
• Make a SIGCHLD handler for reaping of just for setting flags to reap in parent. waitpid is your friend. Sometimes it's nice to call the non-blocking version of waitpid.
• Be aware that the SIGCHLD handler interrupts a sleep(), so that this sleep may be much less than the amount of seconds specified.

McA

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