> Hi at all, Opps, I assume you meant "Hi et all", but that is latin for "Hi and all"... implying a name/group between "Hi" and "et"... such as:
Hi humamiod lifeforms et all, Anyway, that's a little OT. > What is the best method for make a long time > function not blocking? Under Unix, you want to fork. But if you have the guts, then have a look at Perl's threading model - experimental since version 5 was born. perldoc -f fork perldoc perlthrtut > At this moment I solved the problem making > the function a single executable perl file > so I execute (in the main perl file) > system(file-perl-for-function &); Forking does a similar thing, it splits your process into two identical halves. You can then do two things at a time, but communicating back is a little more tricky. For a beginner, the solution you have is probably suitable for the moment, although definately not perfect. Forking isn't portable. Jonathan Paton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
