Recent POE versions contain POE::Wheel::Run. It's kind of like
IPC::Open3 for POE. If you're familiar with Wheel::ReadWrite, it
works something like that for child processes.
I use it to simultaneously drive ssh connections to different machines
on a compile farm. Regression tests run much faster in parallel. :)
-- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:50:39 +0200, Jos I. Boumans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Depending on what you need and what kind of scripts we're tlaking
> you might want to concider using POE, that's perls object
> environment.. it's not true multi-threading, but it's timeslicing
> (multi threading is still experimental and not too reliable i'm
> afraid - might change from 5.8 up wards).
>
> Anyway, POE over fork is often my reasoning if it's possible. ie, if
> you can use timeslicing. Fork is notoriously unreliable under
> windows and has the nasty side effect of creating zombies etc if
> you're not carefull.
>
> Read up on POE at poe.perl.org or the poe article here:
> http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html
>
> sample code is available upon request =)
>
> hth
> Jos Boumans
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:21 AM
> Subject: Multi-Threading?!?
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm fairly new to this list, so I'm not sure if this is really the
>> right place to ask a question of this nature, but I shall ask
>> anyway in the hope that it is.
>>
>> I am trying to write a small script that will run a variable number
>> of other scripts at the same time. I believe this will require
>> multi-threading. (My basic problem is I need to execute up 5
>> scripts which take up to 20 seconds to return a result, and I need
>> to be able to display the result for all of the sub-scripts within
>> 30 seconds).
>>
>> It is my understanding that Perl has experimental capabilities for
>> multi-threading. Is anyone able to help me out on how I can make a
>> reliable multi-threaded script with the experimental code, or
>> perhaps help me out with a good work-around for this.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Michael Lambert
>> Technical Manager
>> RegistrarsAsia Pty Ltd
>> Ph: +61-3-9866-1990
>> Fax: +61-3-9866-1970
>> http://www.registrarsasia.com
>>
>>
>
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