I was doing something today and found that I require to fork a new process in perl. Now I had never done this earlier, so I did not know how to do this.
First some background :
I was doing some program very similar to http server, where the script accepts some input through a socket and then processes the same. In doing so I was seeing that the script was taking some time in processing the input and thus was not processing the second request until the first one was completed.
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