Samn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Automatically restarting process by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 25, 2002 at 16:12 UTC
Using pseudo-code: `repeat fork & exec bot; wait; # That's the system call wait()! until doomsday;` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Automatically restarting process by flounder99 (Friar) on Jul 25, 2002 at 18:58 UTC
Abigail-II's suggestions is best on *nix. If you are stuck on Windows I would recommend Win32::Process `use Win32::Process; my $ProcessObj; while(1) { Win32::Process::Create( $ProcessObj, $appname, $cmdline, $iflags, $cflags, $curdir) or die; $ProcessObj->Wait(INFINITE); }` [download] flounder	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Automatically restarting process by krujos (Curate) on Jul 25, 2002 at 15:52 UTC
You can launch the bot and watch the process or the connection (I am not sure if you mean the whole process dies, or just becomes disconnected). In your loop look to see if the process is still active, if he is not turn him back on. something like `launch bot while (1) if [ bot not connected, alive or whatever] restart, reconnect or whatever... end while` [download] Depending on the exact implementation and platform this may be rolled up for you in a module. good luck	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Automatically restarting process by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Jul 25, 2002 at 15:45 UTC
Is there some way of determining whether or not your bot is currently running? Without knowing anything about how your bot works, I would think you'd want to do it something like this: `unless ( $stop_checking ) { &bot unless $bot_is_running ; }` [download] _______________ D a m n D i r t y A p e Home Node \| Email	[reply] [d/l]