On 4/3/06, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The mainline program is monitoring something - every x seconds I wish to
> execute a subroutine from within the mainline and return to the mainline
> after executing the subroutine to continue the monitoring.
So, it sounds as if you want your mainline program to have an event
loop. One way might be like this:
while (1) {
&monitor_something();
&call_sub_if_x_seconds_have_passed();
}
But from the way you're writing about it, I wonder whether something
like POE might be the way to go. (It doesn't sound as if you need
fork/threads, so I won't mention those.)
http://search.cpan.org/~rcaputo/POE-0.3301/lib/POE.pm
Also, CPAN has a section for "Server Daemon Utilities", although I'm
not sure whether this is what you're looking for:
http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Server_Daemon_Utilities
I hope this gives you something to go on. Good luck with it!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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