[svlug] Running a command n times simutaneously

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

<quote who="Joe Buck">
> But that doesn't provide a clean way of timing when the processes have
> all completed.
>
> You can write a Perl script to manage the multiple processes.  The
> three magic commands you need are "fork", "exec", and "wait".
>

I wrote this a few years ago to demonstrate controled forking in
perl.  And yes, there is a race condition in it.

http://lanning.cc/concurrentdemo.pl

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