in reply to A challenge...at least for me.

Make this 
pipe(*A,*B);
$child1=fork;
$child2=fork;
close B;
while(<A>){
  react
}

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where *every* child writes to B, only the message is formatted to distinguish the children.

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Re: Re: A challenge...at least for me.
by snafu (Chaplain) on Jun 06, 2001 at 22:46 UTC
    This looks very promising, however, don't you mean every child writes to A instead of B? (because it seems like you are closing B and then reading from A). Am I misinterpretting your code somehow?

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    - Jim

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      A pipe links two Filehandles thus: What you syswrite into B can you read in A (or the other way around, I haven't the doku handy). Think of it as a pipe (Name says it all). On a water pipe you don't fill the tap to get water out of it, you use the other end. BTW the code was for the parent.
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