Hello everyone;

I recently divided a large perl program up into smaller scripts to attempt to take advantage of multiple processors on a system. The model is that I'd have a central control program that launches each of the seperate programs, which work parallel to each other, takes the results from those programs (result files and the fact that they're complete) and decides on how best to take advantage of multiple processes. It does this by knowing how many requests are waiting to be executed at various stages of the process.

Now - my problem is, how can I run two programs simultaneously, wait for the results of one and make the next choice occording to the new numbers, while the other is still running and so on and so forth. I can make it wait on a single process to complete, but not sure how to do multiple.

Thanks Monks.

UPDATE: Solution is to use POE to handle the multiple events - thanks for the solution fauria

In reply to Waiting For Multiple Programs to Complete by NathanE

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