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Re: Re: Question on how fork works.

by mattriff (Chaplain)
on Jul 01, 2002 at 02:02 UTC ( [id://178446]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Question on how fork works.
in thread Question on how fork works.

The docs describe it just a little differently. According to perlfunc, it returns 0 (zero) to the child process. undef is returned to the parent if the fork fails.

- Matt Riffle

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Re: Re: Re: Question on how fork works.
by samtregar (Abbot) on Jul 01, 2002 at 03:31 UTC
    Good point. I should have kept it to what I knew and said it returned false.

    -sam

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