Re: fork() question

[Binish A R]

Peter Rabbitson wrote:

I think I am getting the idea of fork() all wrong. Here is an example:


my $pid = fork();

if ($pid) {     # should apply to parent only?
   exit;
}

sleep 1;
print "Test\n";
exit;

'Test' does not print. If I remove the 'sleep 1' - it prints. From what I understood fork creates two identical processes that become completely independent from each other. What am I missing?

Peter

It should print Test, but you should wait for a while .. [ ~ 1 sec ]
Test is printed by the child process.



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Binish A R