Eliya,

I downloaded and tested your script, and it does exactly as you say.

So I have a production 20,000 line application that does the following:

Parent process

• Startup and initialize all "common" hashes (ie %SYS, %Account, ... )
• Establish socket communication
• fork children that wait on socket (usually at least 4 children, but in one case their are 128 children)
• Maintain children

Child process

• wait on socket
• do work when communication received (GET/POST data) from cgi script called from web server and returns html to the cgi script, which returns the html to the server.
• exit after nn number of calls

So that's the high level picture. Now the actual work that goes on is all done by subroutine calls from a child as follows:

• User logs in with account/password.
  • Child verifies account and creates a $Account{user}{ } HoH .
    Note: each user has about 60-100 hash fields. child returns html to caller.
• user clicks on things they want
  • each click results in call to different children that use the $Account{user}{ HoH } to read/update/delete values. Notice we don't know which child will be working on which user. We use *nix logging so we can see the different children($$) being called by different users.
• user logs out and child undefines all hashes created for user.

So based upon you script this shouldn't work, but it does.

The parent doesn't look at any of the 'our' hashes, only the children and each child logs information that they have used from the global hashes.

Now I'm confused at a different level.

Thank you

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