Re: Fork parent process dies unexpectedly

[BazB]

One minor-ish style point, there is no need to do

use POSIX 'WNOHANG';
use POSIX 'setsid';
use POSIX 'sys_wait_h';

use

use POSIX qw( WNOHANG setsid sys_wait_h );

instead. Repeated use statements for the same module are redundant and become awkward quickly, IMHO.

[iang]

Thanks for this suggestion.

I redid the code as suggested, but it fails in this format on sys_wait_h. I get a compile error :

use POSIX qw ( WNOHANG setsid EINTR sys_wait_h );
### use POSIX 'sys_wait_h'

":sys_wait_h'" is not exported by the POSIX module
Can't continue after import errors at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-
+thread-multi/POSIX.pm line 19
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./server.pl line 9

Thanks I appreciate all the pointers. Ian