in reply to Keep Two Processes Going

Depending on the details of what you want from the kids, there are several ways.

  1. Parallel::ForkManager lets you set a maximum number of processes which all have the same code. When one exits, another will appear.
  2. A $SIG{CHLD} handler can arrange to replace a finished process with another.
  3. A wait loop can fork a replacement.

What do your processes do? It's not clear from your description that either process needs to exit until the work is done.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Re: Keep Two Processes Going
by blax (Sexton) on May 29, 2004 at 05:23 UTC
    Hello,

    First off, thank you for your reply. I believe signals will work gret.

    <snip> It's not clear from your description that either process needs to exit until the work is done. </snip> I am not trying to be an asshole, but I didn't think I needed to be clear as to why I needed two processes running at the same time. I thought I could just say it. But since it may help, here is my response.

    The process is nget. Nget is a command-line usenet binary grabber. The reason that I want two ngets to run at the same time is so that I have two connections to my usenet provider. Without at least two ngets running I don't get as good of download time (Retrieving articles then assembling takes some time away from downloading).

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