Right, I should have mentioned that I looked at both of those, too.

I just tried this variation with some success:

my ($i, $return, $pid, @pids);
for ($i = 1; $i <= 3; $i++) {
  if ($pid=fork) {
    push @pids, $pid;
  } elsif (defined $pid) {
    $return = &my_function($i);
    print "Returned: $return\n";
    exit;
  }
}

foreach my $childpid (@pids) {
  waitpid($childpid, 0);
}

print "All is done!\n";
Does that seem a reasonable/efficient way to handle this?

Thanks.

In reply to RE: Re: Forking and waiting by Silas
in thread Forking and waiting by Silas

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