isolating thread-unsafe modules

[DAVID HODGKINSON]

On 30 Jul 2013, at 14:54, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

And I've used it. Works fine.


> 
> * the right sort of evil and hacky though
> 
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