Re: Managing the fork/execing and reaping of child processes

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    if ($active_readers < $current_reader_limit) {
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Have you considered using Parallel::ForkManager?

DESCRIPTION

This module is intended for use in operations that can be done in parallel where the number of processes to be forked off should be limited.

Alexander

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Re^2: Managing the fork/execing and reaping of child processes by Anonymous Monk on Jul 16, 2015 at 20:59 UTC
By far the best suggestion . . . this is a thing already done.	[reply]