My first question, so try not to kill me. I did search first though:) What I'm working on is a multi-threaded program to do some network tasks. I have to connect to a number of hosts to complete these tasks, I don't think what they are matters and would only confuse. So I have a stack/array that has all of the hostnames in it and I want each child process to get a different one of each stack. Basically my plan is (rough pseudocode) 
@array_of_hosts
while(hostsleft){
    fork()
    if child{
        pop @array_of_hosts and go to town with that host
    }
    parent code{
        pop @array_of_hosts and throw away value, continue on with loo
+p
    }
}

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My idea is that the parent pop's the stack right after the fork, so that the value the child process got is no longer in the stack. Is this the right thing to do, or is there a "right thing to do"?

many thanks,
Joe

In reply to Using a stack with fork() by mp3car-2001

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