Re^2: wrong pid

Thanks. You're right. I want to send the filename to the subprocess process_tar.pl.

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "\n" . $ARGV[0];
sleep 40;
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Then after launching this, I want the parent script to carry on running and launch 5 more process_tar.pl's, then wait until one or more of these have finished before running any more.

So you're saying use fork for this?

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Re^3: wrong pid by kyle (Abbot) on Apr 23, 2007 at 14:24 UTC
Yes, I was saying use fork for this. Given that you want to launch several processes and wait for them before running more, I might suggest Parallel::ForkManager instead.	[reply]