Re: BEGIN, INIT etc...

"szr" writes:
> Ben Morrow wrote:
>> 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).
>
> This could actually desirable in some cases, such as when you need to
> free/clean-up in each child? (Albiet it would probably be done
> differently.)

Normally, the exec() would succeed, and the exit() would not be called
at all. I tried to ignore all error handling, and that exit() statement
just slipped through.

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