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Re^2: fork() and defunct childrenby Anonymous Monk |
on Feb 12, 2008 at 22:53 UTC ( [id://667696]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Not write to -- read from. It won't be faster, but the children will mostly be shelling out system commands, and occasionally doing something like SHOW CREATE TABLE to the database. So the DB accesses will be few and short, while the children mostly spend time waiting for system() calls to finish.
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