I've been researching threads and, since I'm coming from Perl, where fork()
is used, that was my first thought. I've noticed, while searching, that
there isn't as much on fork() in C++ as one would expect. Is there a
reason for this? Is fork() considered dangerous or a command to avoid?
I know I can use stuff in Boost to handle threads, so in many ways this
may
be academic. I won't be using threads for a bit yet, but I'll need to
know
more soon and I'm just wondering if there's a reason I didn't find much on
it. Whenever I searched for threads, it never came up at all. (I know
it's not quite the same as a thread, but I'd have expected to see it a few
times.)
Thanks!
Hal
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