On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:37:26PM -0000, Luke Hopkins (Broadbean) wrote: > Is this a simple use of fork()? No, nor a correct one. fork() won't do what you want, unless I've totally misunderstood. Does POE [0] do what you need? /joel -- 0: http://poe.perl.org/ -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug