Hi, here is a demonstration using MCE by marioroy. We are using MCE::Shared to implement shared data between child processes. We are also using MCE::Flow to manage the child processes, but you could use native fork() or any other technique. 

use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say';
use MCE::Shared;
use MCE::Flow;

tie my $foo, 'MCE::Shared', 0;
tie my @bar, 'MCE::Shared';
tie my %baz, 'MCE::Shared';

my $mutex = MCE::Mutex->new;

mce_flow { max_workers => 4 }, sub {
    my ( $mce ) = @_;
    my ( $pid, $wid ) = ( MCE->pid, MCE->wid );

    # Locking is necessary when multiple workers update the same eleme
+nt
    $mutex->enter( sub { $foo += 1 } );

    # Otherwise, locking is optional for unique elements.
    $bar[ $wid - 1 ] = $pid;
    $baz{ $pid }     = $wid;

    return;
 };

 say "scalar :";
 say "   count is now $foo";
 say "array :";
 say "   pid $_ was here" for @bar;
 say "hash :";
 say "   worker $baz{ $_ } had pid $_" for sort keys %baz;

__END__

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Output: 
scalar :
   count is now 4
array :
   pid 13826 was here
   pid 13827 was here
   pid 13828 was here
   pid 13829 was here
hash :
   worker 1 had pid 13826
   worker 2 had pid 13827
   worker 3 had pid 13828
   worker 4 had pid 13829

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See also: MCE Cookbook, MCE Examples.

Hope this helps!


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In reply to Re: Getting messages from child processes via pipes (using mighty MCE) by 1nickt
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