Re: Forking Clients

Is gepapa aware that the OPed code has the following line:

$pid, @resp = $connection->rpc('ClarRPCService::system_call', $command
+);
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If this highly suspicious statement is just, as I assume, a cut/paste typo, can gepapa please update the OP?

If this is a valid statement, can someone please explain to a forking tyro such as myself just what is going on here?

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Re^2: Forking Clients by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 17, 2008 at 04:25 UTC
The lexical variable `$pid` is evaluated and the result is then discarded. The variable is not `tie`-d to anything, so there can be no side effect. Don't you see a warning from this (although you don't `use warnings;` in your sample code)? All output from the `$connection->rpc()` function call is assigned to `@resp`. What's the point of having `$pid` in the statement? A typo or a thinko is strongly suggested. `>perl -wMstrict -le "my $pid = 'foo'; my @resp = qw{ a b c }; sub S { return qw{ FOO bar quux } } $pid, @resp = S(); print qq{$pid @resp}; " Useless use of private variable in void context at -e line 1. foo FOO bar quux` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Forking Clients by gepapa (Acolyte) on Oct 17, 2008 at 14:27 UTC
I added the $pid part last second, it should have parens around the two variables I will fix it. I didn't really pay attention to it, I fixed the OP Thanks.	[reply]
Re^2: Forking Clients by gepapa (Acolyte) on Oct 16, 2008 at 12:34 UTC
Hi, What is your main worry with the statement? I guess I am not seeing it.	[reply]