avanta

I've not done it in perl before, but plenty of times in C/C++. In cases like this, I generally have a parent fork off children, one for each independent task. The parent (original) then monitors the status of the child process(es). Typically, I also have a few shared variables just for the children to advertise any interesting internal state that the parent may be interested in.

As I said, I've not done it in perl before, as none of my code has needed it so far. But IIRC, there are several thread/process management packages on CPAN that may be of some help to you.

...roboticus