Perl – Basic Fork Example

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  • By podtech
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use warnings;
 
print "Starting main program\n";
my @childs;
 
for ( my $count = 1; $count <= 10; $count++) {
        my $pid = fork();
        if ($pid) {
        # parent
        #print "pid is $pid, parent $$\n";
        push(@childs, $pid);
        } elsif ($pid == 0) {
                # child
                sub1($count);
                exit 0;
        } else {
                die "couldnt fork: $!\n";
        }
 
 
 
}
 
foreach (@childs) {
        my $tmp = waitpid($_, 0);
         print "done with pid $tmp\n";
 
}
 
print "End of main program\n";
 
 
sub sub1 {
        my $num = shift;
        print "started child process for  $num\n";
        sleep $num;
        print "done with child process for $num\n";
        return $num;
}

 

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