[MacPerl] fork()

[Tinus - Martijn Houtman <tinus@tinus.eu.org>]

IIRC fork() is the PID copier thing, right?
Well, on my linux-box i can create a script with a fork() function inside,
so that it will be multi-threaded, e.g. :

if ($pid = fork) {                      # We are parent
        $irc->start;
} elsif (defined $pid) {                # We are child
           while($fp = <>){
                $conn->privmsg("#perl", $fp);
                }
 }
 else {
  die "Can't fork!\n";                  # Houston, ... ;-)
}

Isn't this a possibility (at least a slighlty modified piece of code) to
eventually make MacPerl script multi-threaded?

And, for the makers of MacPerl i've got another question:

Thanks you for making perl available for the mac, but what i don't really
get is why MacPerl isn't multi-threaded, as the mac *is*. Will it ever be
possible? If not, can i use the unix perl version on Mac OS X and how?

thanks,

Martijn Houtman
VT Internet Produkties
Netherlands




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