Re^2: Should I call waitpid when using Parallel::ForkManager to fork in an infinite loop?

Is that true? I thought that $pm->finish did the reap, and allowed the manager to start another process (assuming that $max_procs processes have been started already)?

So the OPs code would maintain $max_procs children at all time (because of the while (1) ), and as you said, no explicit cleanup or reaping need be added, because of the wonderfulness of Parallel::ForkManager!

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Re^3: Should I call waitpid when using Parallel::ForkManager to fork in an infinite loop? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 16, 2009 at 16:54 UTC
I thought that $pm->finish did the reap `finish` is only executed in the child. It can't do any reaping.	[reply] [d/l]