isolating thread-unsafe modules

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Jul 30 14:54:50 BST 2013


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:02:25PM +0100, Bob MacCallum wrote:

> Good question - I have always hacked something with fork in the past but it
> just seemed so simple with Thread::Queue and threads.  I've never needed
> much IPC in the past.

Parallel::ForkManager has some (evil, hacky*) support for returning data
from a forked child to the parent.

* the right sort of evil and hacky though

-- 
David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

    fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah;
    fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way


More information about the london.pm mailing list