I have a bit of a quandry.
I'm running a number of forked processes in a program. The name and number of these processes varies from each running of this program, so they are called using an iterative loop.

I've managed to get the processes to run concurrently, using fork and pipe, but there isn't a mechansim to pass the output back to the parent program, which I need to do. I know I have the option of creating a temp file, but that becomes a problem when multiple users are running this program (web based).

I was thinking of creating a filename based on rand(), but them someone suggested I look at IO::Select. Problem is, every example I see uses sockets, and that's not really necessary in this situation. The forked processes being run are from a group of custom 'handlers' I've written. All the scripts are in one location, so they will always run from that place. Can IO::Select be used here without creating sockets? If so, how can I use it to harvest the output of these processes?

In reply to IO::Select - is it right for this? by mcogan1966

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