in reply to Re: Forking Issue
in thread Forking Issue

I appreciate that, but if a simple time trick would do the job of the real code, I would have done that. But as I said in the original post, "I need to get fork to somehow work like this."

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Re (tilly) 3: Forking Issue
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 18, 2001 at 00:05 UTC
    Why does it need to be fork? The Run commands in parallel works on both Windows and *nix (where fork is somewhat less portable). Will that do for your (unspecified) real task?
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      I'm trying desperately to get a timeout for socket connections on Win32. Trying to do something other than have them just hang the program.
      *sigh*
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        IO::Socket has a timeout attribute that you can get/set. Does that work on Win32?
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