Keeping an eye on hung system calls..

[muppet]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote:

> Both methods are kind of ugly though.. The system() call is  
> expensive enough as
> it is (including it's own fork&exec), and I'd still need to find a  
> mechanism to
> make sure I can kill the system-child of the worker fork-or-thread,  
> as well as
> just the worker.

In this situation i always choose fork() over threads.  Forking works  
on all unixen and is emulated on win32, while ithreads are not  
available on the perl shipped on all systems (FreeBSD and Slackware  
Linux, for example).


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