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Receiving data from many childrenby xiper (Friar) |
on Aug 20, 2003 at 02:47 UTC ( [id://285088]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
xiper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I have a parent that spawns a bunch of children, up to 10 at any one time, to do some 'mostly-idle' processing. My question is, how to i get the results back from each child? Previously i've used the exit status of the child, which is fine for simple return values, but now i have a complex-data-structure to be returned (although can easily be encoded into a string by Data::Dumper if necessary). I've experimented with pipes but they only seem to work with 1 parent - 1 child relationship. IPC::Shareable looks to do what i want, but i wanted to get input from others to see if there was a simpler solution.
My code so far, if anyone's interested:
Thanks all! - ><iper
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