Spawning child processes

[Chris]

I have a stand-alone program that I want to convert into a client-server
type approach so that instead of running several instances of the same
program I just spawn new child processes. In theory this should reduce
the load on our server :-)

As I've never done any of this before could anyone please suggest
web-sites or other sources for useful info. I've done a google search,
but comes up mainly with distance learning courses for C :-(

TIA
Chris.

[Mark A. Odell]

Chris <no*******@bms.umist.ac.uk> wrote in
news:3f********@news.umist.ac.uk:

I have a stand-alone program that I want to convert into a client-server
type approach so that instead of running several instances of the same
program I just spawn new child processes. In theory this should reduce
the load on our server :-)

As I've never done any of this before could anyone please suggest
web-sites or other sources for useful info. I've done a google search,
but comes up mainly with distance learning courses for C :-(

I'm afraid we're no help here since the C language has not notion of
spawning processes. You simply cannot do this without some system-specific
(read: off-topic here) libraries. This sounds kind of unixy so why not try
over in comp.unix.programmer?

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[Chris]

Mark A. Odell wrote:

Chris <no*******@bms.umist.ac.uk> wrote in
news:3f********@news.umist.ac.uk:

I have a stand-alone program that I want to convert into a client-server
type approach so that instead of running several instances of the same
program I just spawn new child processes. In theory this should reduce
the load on our server :-)

As I've never done any of this before could anyone please suggest
web-sites or other sources for useful info. I've done a google search,
but comes up mainly with distance learning courses for C :-(

I'm afraid we're no help here since the C language has not notion of
spawning processes. You simply cannot do this without some system-specific
(read: off-topic here) libraries. This sounds kind of unixy so why not try
over in comp.unix.programmer?

Thanks. I'll head over there then.