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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting fork processes Post 302603176 by birei on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 08:58:08 AM
Old 02-29-2012
Hi Anjan1,

fork function creates one additional process. Check the return value, the child pid for the parent and 0 for the child. To count them use a variable, like
Quote:
++$forked_childs;
Regards,
Birei

Last edited by birei; 02-29-2012 at 11:34 AM..
 

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yafaray is an advanced raytracing rendering systems that accepts an XML input file and produces an image output file based on its contents. OPTIONS
-s strategy Use strategy to render the scene, where strategy is either threaded (fork multiple threads, which is the default), mono (use a single thread and process), or fork (fork multiple processes). fork is not implemented yet. -c N Use N processes or threads (depends on the strategy), for operating on an SMP computer or cluster. -r min_x:max_x:min_y:max_y Render only part of the frame, values between -1 and 1. The whole image is -r -1:1:-1:1. -z Optimize for running on a cluster by gzipping some data passed between processes. -p path Set an alternative path for the plugins. -v Show the program version. SEE ALSO
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