Happy Easter/Passover/Sunday, bros, depending on your persuasion.

I am just getting the hang of this threading stuff, so forgive me if this is a clueless question but...

I am running a script of which this is a simplified example (processresponse is a sub not included):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use  strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Proc::Queue size => 3;
use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; # imports WNOHANG
my $pid;
my $user_agent = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$user_agent->timeout(30);
my @urlstoget = qw( http://foo.com http://bar.com http://etc.com http:
+//and-so-on.com );
my $starttime = time;
while (@urlstoget) {
        my $url  = shift(@urlstoget) };
        $pid = fork;
        if(defined ($pid) and $pid==0) {
            my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $url);
            my $response = $user_agent->request($request);
            my $dbh = connectdb('listeningpost');
            processresponse($response)
            exit(0);
       }
   1 while waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)>0; # reaps childs
}
my $elapsed = time - $starttime;
open LOG,">getitemshtmlog.txt";
print LOG "$n urls in $elapsed seconds, ",$elapsed/$n," sec per url\n"
+;

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Thing is, everyting in the while loop runs fine, but the stuff after it doesn't execute. Why not?

TIA...

Steve

In reply to fork/threads: running after childrem by cormanaz

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