Re: perl daemon program

beast wrote:
> Hi All,

Hello,

> 1. Does Perl program suitable for long running process or daemon?

Yes.

> 2. Is this considered as daemon program?
> 
>    $ cat myprog.pl
>    while($true) {
>       # do something
>    }
> 
>    $ ./myprog.pl &

No.

http://www.enderunix.org/documents/eng/daemon.php
http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/9/
http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~dpotter/howto/daemonize




John
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