Re: Re (tilly) 1: Fork() confusion

Tilly, I originally had the run_on_start and run_on_finish but for some reason it wouldn't run so i searched through the ForkManager.pm and found that the methods are called on_start and on_finish, quite strange. I should mention that I am using ActivePerl for windows. I think that might be the problem. Thanks for the quick response. DKode

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Re (tilly) 3: Fork() confusion by tilly (Archbishop) on May 29, 2001 at 08:37 UTC
Ah. Well Perl 5.6 on Windows offers an emulation of fork, but does not actually provide forking. Personally I would not trust it. However I have successfully used Run commands in parallel under Windows NT. But YMMV. Personally I think that if you want to play with process control, you are best off either using a Windows model or else getting yourself a Unix or Unix-like system. (These days it isn't that hard to install Linux or FreeBSD...)	[reply]

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Re (tilly) 3: Fork() confusion
by tilly (Archbishop) on May 29, 2001 at 08:37 UTC

Run commands in parallel

Personally I think that if you want to play with process control, you are best off either using a Windows model or else getting yourself a Unix or Unix-like system. (These days it isn't that hard to install Linux or FreeBSD...)

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