you're right, the exit call at customer level is wrong, it should be at the end of the
if ($cust_pid == 0) {
}
section. And this is where it is in my application. Sorry for not spotting the typo in my message before submitting it.
I need multiple customers running at the same time so I can't wait for the child to finish unfortunately.

What I mean by "Perl seems to be confusing...." is that the Net::SNMP module starts giving me strange errors in the form of "No response from Agent on router" and "Sent pid is not the same as the one received", whereas when I omit forking at customer level, I do not get any errors at all.

I read somewhere that SIGCHLD is not very reliable with Perl and that race conditions could occur. Can it be just that the source of my problem?

In reply to Re: Re: Nested forks -help! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Nested forks -help! by Anonymous Monk

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