Hi, I'm trying to write a SIMPLE script that uses interprocess communication to do the following:

1. Define an empty array called @myarray in the parent process.
2. Fork 3 child processes (for simplicity we'll call them pid1, pid2, and pid3).
3. For each child process, push an integer onto the array: pid1 will push (@myarray, 1), pid2 push (@myarray,2) and pid3 will push (@myarray,3).
4. The end result is that the parent process has @myarray containing (1,2,3).

I'm new to process management and IPC stuff, so I'm just trying to find the simplest way to allow @myarray to be "shared" so all processes have access to modify it. Thank you so much for your help; this site is great!

In reply to simple IPC by keithw99

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