> Or you might want to use threads, though they are certainly not the same > both have their advantages and you might want to read up on them before > making a decission on which to use. > > In any case I would advise you to first, use which ever way of modeling you > prefer, to draw out the way the system works and to identify exactly which > processes depend on which other processes. Due to the way OS's handle > multiple seperate processes paying special attention to how the seperate > independent parts run and how that might affect the main program or other > independent parts becomes quite important. You need to count on some > processes failing, not finshing as fast as you would normally expect because > there are now more processes running at the same time and things like file > locking if the independent parts are operating on the same files... all in > all making a quick drawing even of a very simple program can prevent a lot > of trouble later on.
Thank you Rob. The good thing is that these process I am trying to launch are not dependant on each other. In fact, they are actually same process with different parameters. I just need to launch them based on some algo and user constraints. Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
