Wow SysV is cool to learn. There is more to it than I thought though. Two things operating out of the same queue will not work without syncing. I *think* the code I wrote is okay since the queue is filled up and then processed, but SysV IPC must be some of the oldest code still in Linux. Of the three books I have that reference it, seems it was still shiny back in 1986, discouraged in 2005, and downright hated by everyone in 2012. First sentence in Programming Perl about System V IPC: "Everyone hates System V IPC."

I didn't know enough about it to hate it yet. You'd think a queue implementation with fork would be relatively not hard to do. Totally new to me I thought I was breaking new ground about to dance in the graveyard of conventional wisdom -- not so much. You need something like IPC::Semaphore to control access, and then you have to clean that up as well, which presents problems because you want to delete the queue when it is empty, but delete the queue too soon, and it becomes quite difficult to lock. Delete it too late and it's just hanging around somewhere in memory forever. And it doesn't do chunking, nobody wants to dequeue just one item. Okay.. I'm starting to get it now -- at the end of the CPAN road is MCE or you could go cooperative multitasking with Coro.. gotta go but i wanted to post this now

Update 2019-02-04 - Wait properly and destroy the queue from the parent after all children have been reaped

In reply to Re: IPC::Msg Fork queue by trippledubs
in thread IPC::Msg Fork queue by trippledubs

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