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Re: Efficient way to fork processes and keep a running count?

by bart (Canon)
on Jan 27, 2010 at 19:49 UTC ( [id://820010]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Efficient way to fork processes and keep a running count?

fork isn't so bad for efficiency. So I suggest you let the parent do all the bookkeeping, and you wait for any of the 3 children to finish. And then you can start up the next disk in the available drive.
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