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no available ports for this script
many thanks travs69, your a standup guy, at least now i know that the code im righting actually works lol. cheers -
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no available ports for this script
I am trying to teach myself network programming in perl and i am at the early stages, one of the first ports that i am trying to connect to on a server is port 13, this port is suppost to provide you with 'daytime' information (basically the time), problem is every server that i try to connect... -
simple beginners problem
sorry should be more specific, when i run the program in dos i get this: PID=3067 #the id of the current process the get getppid function is unimplemented at c:\perl programs\fork.pl line 9. what i find a mystery (even when i use #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe) is that it recognises the current process... -
simple beginners problem
i am trying to teach myself perl and network programming with perl and i am unsure of what the problem is with the following code: #!/usr/local/bin/perl print "PID=$$\n"; my $child = fork(); die "cant fork: $!" unless defined $child; if ($child > 0){ #parent process print "parent process...
