Since I am stuck with 5.16 I tried another module, Async. It seems to work ok but there's one bit of behavior that I didn't expect (though I probably should have): if the parent script finishes, the subroutine fired by Async finishes as well (I was testing some writes after a sleep command). I guess this makes sense since the process is dying and thus everything on it's stack gets popped but I didn't comprehend this when I first started thinking about the problem.

I haven't yet tested it within the OpenSIPs module and don't know enough about how it works to wager a guess as to whether it keeps a persistent Perl env going while it operates (I know it spawns individual worker processes so each of them might have a unique env as well). Is it an unreasonable expectation to keep looking for a module that might be able to "fire-and-forget" a subroutine that can keep running even if the parent process dies?

In reply to Re^2: Advice: Async Options for fire-and-forget subroutine by mwb613
in thread Advice: Async Options for fire-and-forget subroutine by mwb613

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