Re: BEGIN, INIT etc...

Ben Morrow writes:

> Quoth Joost Diepenmaat :
>> if (! fork()) { # assumin fork() doesn't fail here.
>> exec $whatever;
>> exit;
>
> You need POSIX::_exit here, or the END blocks get run twice (once for
> each process).

Sorry, that's my mistake: exec() never returns, unless it fails, and I
tried to disregard every complication to make the point.

>> }
>> exit;
>
> You probably want to wait here before exitting, as otherwise the execed
> process is orphaned, and your parent gets SIGCHLD early. You probably
> also want to set up signal handlers to pass signals along, etc... see
> the source for the shell of your choice :). Or you could just use
> system, which does all that for you.

Sure, this is just the extremely simplified version :-)


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