Thanks for the post.

I am new to Perl, and want to make sure I understand this right. When we say "$manager->start and next;" , doesn't what is below this statement (rest of the for loop that is) get skipped completely? I am having a hard time understanding at what point (and precisely how) the child process is spawned, where does it end, and how the code actually executes. Can someone please explain this a bit more? The way I see it, it seems like all these child processed are spawned but nothing happens after that since we are out of the for loop already!

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Re: Introduction to Parallel::ForkManager by listanand
in thread Introduction to Parallel::ForkManager by biosysadmin

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