in reply to Re: Win32 fork() "problem"
in thread Win32 fork() "problem"

Hi, dawn

I've looked at those modules already and will probably end up utilising Win32::Job on an XP box at some point. This has the benefit of easily being able to set a timeout for a command using $job->run($cmd,$timeout) which is a huge improvement for Win32 platforms.

I was really hoping I had made a glaring logic error (rather than fork() just playing up) in my use of fork...

If I can't get a simple case like this to work (does this work on another platform?) I'll have to resort to a more brute force method of divvying up work. :-(

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Re: Re: Re: Win32 fork() "problem"
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 27, 2004 at 08:49 UTC
    FYI, your code works fine on Linux. Here is the output: 
    Parent 962 got PID 963 from fork(962 Computer1)
        963 Computer1

+Parent 962 got PID 964 from fork(962 Computer2)
        964 Computer2

+       965 Computer3
Parent 962 got PID 965 from fork(962 Computer3)

+Parent 962 got PID 966 from fork(962 )
        966 

+wait() ed until -1 was returned.

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    Another module that you might look into is IPC::Run. I know that it has at least some Win32 functionality.
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