Well, that's easy. I don't think much of that. You would
either have to work with threads, or shared memory segments
to communicate the state of the variable between the
various processes. But, since each of the processes can
actually change the variable, you need to implement some
form of locking mechanism on the variable.... So, to avoid
the "hassle" of locking files (which is really trivial in
Unix), you need threads (which don't really work in Perl),
or System V shared memory segments (a hassle), and on top of
that, you need some form of locking anyway.
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The caveat that I am a "novice at forking" is right in the title of this thread. I do appreciate the advice though.
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