Good day monks. I am trying to get the hang of using multiple processes with WWW::Mechanize. I think I've just about got it figured out except for one thing. Can different processes share the same mech object? In other words can I
use Proc::Queue size => 3;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(timeout => 90);
while (@urllist) {
    $pid = fork;
    if(defined ($pid) and $pid==0) {
        $mech->get($url);
        print "$mech->content()->as_HTML();
        exit(0);
    }
    1 while waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)>0; # reaps childs
}

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or do I have to
use Proc::Queue size => 3;
while (@urllist) {
    $pid = fork;
    if(defined ($pid) and $pid==0) {
    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(timeout => 90);
        $mech->get($url);
        print "$mech->content()->as_HTML();
        exit(0);
    }
    1 while waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)>0; # reaps childs
}

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?

Many thanks...

Steve

In reply to Fork and WWW::Mechanize: Can agent be shared? by cormanaz

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