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Perl » System Functions » fork 




Using fork and pipe.
     
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

pipe (INPUT, OUTPUT)
$retval = fork()
if ($retval != 0) { 
    this is the parent process 
    close (INPUT)
    print ("Enter a line of input:\n")
    $line = <STDIN>; 
    print OUTPUT ($line)
else 
    this is the child process 
    close (OUTPUT)
    $line = <INPUT>; 
    print ($line)
    exit (0)


   
    
    
    
    
  














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