A very informative node on threads (++ to all).

Am I just being too sarcastic to see the value in spawning of a bunch of threads that just do a backtick operation? Don't get me wrong, I see the general value in the question and answers about thread spawning and joining but would this be a proper monks node without someone questioning the given script. Is there something funky about perl on Win32 that I'm missing (like backticks don't fork/exec). Or more general, is there any value in spawing threads that will just fork/exec a cmd.

My first inclination is that no, there is no value in that. You should either junk the thread overhead and just stick with fork/exec (and not use backticks because there's overhead in that with a shell coming into the equation) or find some "thread-safe/thread-aware" way to ping (is Net::Ping thread-safe?).

However, if this is just an exercise in threading and is not going to be used in the real world - then nevermind.

-derby

In reply to Re: Using threads with Ping by derby
in thread Using threads with Ping by JamesNC

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