in reply to Using forks and threads

I think mixing forking and threads is asking for trouble. (Particularly if you're on Win32 when forking is threads.)

Several people have reported good results using Parallel::ForkManager for things they otherwise might want to do with threads. I haven't used it personally, but there's a tutorial if you want to give it a try.

-xdg

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Re^2: Using forks and threads
by ColinHorne (Sexton) on Jul 20, 2006 at 08:39 UTC
    Thanks xdg, I will look into this one. If the worst comes to the worst, I suppose I could always fork() before threading, and have the child act as a slave for the parent, fork()ing itself off to perform an exec() on demand, and returning the results to the parent.
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