Also pretty funny: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html If you |fork <http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html>| without ever waiting on your children, you will accumulate zombies. On some systems, you can avoid this by setting |$SIG{CHLD}| to |"IGNORE"| . See also perlipc <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html> for more examples of forking and reaping moribund children. Aan de zin "reaping moribund children" te zien zou ik denken dat Stephen King of zo de perl-documentatie geschreven heeft :-/ Thomas Abeel wrote:

Zo weet je dat het gemakkelijk gaat worden om het te gebruiken:

The software is provided on an 'as is' basis. The implementation is fast (one of the aims in its design), and is grounded on a lean sparse matrix/vector architecture. It is command-line based and the *documentation is also lean and sparse*.

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