[TAG] perl: forking and children.... again

[Karl-Heinz Herrmann]

Hi Ben,


On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:37:56 -0400
Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> Anyway, Karl-Heinz: while I was fiddling about trying to come up with a
> "max-spread" sorting algorithm [1], I ran across a reference to
> Parallel::ForkManager on 'http://perlmonks.org'. Doing a quick lookup on
> CPAN came back with this (snipped from the documentation):

Hmm...

> This module is intended for use in operations that can be done in
> parallel where the number of processes to be forked off should be
> limited.  Typical use is a downloader which will be retrieving
> hundreds/thousands of files.


yes -- doesn't hit my problem directly  (one thread which is not
breaking down would be good enough) but sounds very interesting for
other applications. 

> http://search.cpan.org/author/DLUX/Parallel-ForkManager-0.7.5/ForkManager.pm
> 
> There's also Parallel::ForkControl -
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/author/BLHOTSKY/Parallel-ForkControl-0.04/lib/Parallel/ForkControl.pm


Thanks for the links...


K.-H.