Re: Fork Or Cron?

what would the adult/child be doing? "Apokalyptik" <apokalyptik@apokalyptik.com> wrote in message news:1025128477.26152.23.camel@BlackHole... > I'm the author of a little used, little cared about ftp indexing script > (http://www.apokalyptik.com/ftp/) and i'm working on - slowly - > releasing version 2.0. Version 1 runs as a cron job (or a daemon) and > its one monolithic piece of code that handles managing of the queue of > new and old sites to be scanned, as well as the scanning of these > sites... > > In version 2 I'm looking to seperate these functions into seperate > mother/daughter daemon processes, and I'm not sure whether it's worth > the time messing around with the process forking functions in php, or i > should just make truly seperate file/processes... > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! >