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in reply to Re^2: Processing a set of resources with a pool of forked children
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Good catch, thank you. Well, er... first come, first serve. Children always have an eye on each others privileges. ;-)

Seriously, it's an artifact from cut&paste. In the code I took that from, processing had preferably to be in the same order as the spawned children. Not a technical requirement.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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