From: Eric Veith1 > Bob, > > what language would you have used? I admit this is my first Perl project > to involve this kind of child process handling.
Eric, The final choice depends very much on A) target environment and B) resources required. The use of libraries, both private and third party, will also have a marked impact on how long it takes to complete a project. Personally, I have a lot of C experience (> 20 years) with various multi-tasking and multi-processing environments. So on a Posix platform I would probably write the control program in C with pthreads. On MS-Windows it would still be C, but using a different API. I know several programmers that would do it in Java, and a couple that would even fight through it with C++. How to write the applications also depends on what they need to do. The description I gave is a rough outline of the MS-Windows Service Control Manager and the way it interacts with various services and the display applet. Again, I have written several services in C, so I have working templates already available for that model. But, if they have a GUI component, that is a very different requirement from a console/ daemon/ service process, and requires significantly different tool kits. Also, the choice of OS will dictate some of those requirements. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of tool kits that are fully portable between MS-Windows and the rest of the world. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
