how would I do this? I just tried accessing each fo the keys in %childern and it doesn't come up with anything ...
Is there a better approach to this problem .. would a non-forkign server be better? I tried that first, but it didn't handle multiple connections very well.
man perlfunc, and search for the following functions,
which will allow you to allocate and access shared
memory. I would also suggest reading up on some
shared memory concepts and such. Good luck, hope it
works out for you, and most of all -- that you learn
a lot from it.