To answer the questions you actually asked, in reverse order:

• Yes, this is the way to rebless into a new class.
• The way you've coded the "new" method, it calls _init using a method call on $self. It needs to be blessed for this to work. You could change this to a simple subroutine call: _init( $self ), and not bother with the first blessing.

What you've coded will work, and most of it is fine; but there are a couple of things I dislike about the class structure you've used:

• First, you have two _init methods, which do different things: one is a factory method; the other is a genuine instance initialisation.
• Second, your base class, ProcInfo, has two roles: first, it's a factory; second, it's a ProcInfo thingy.

You've said you have written a few of these; if you put the code from _init into a separate module, called, say, Factory, in a method called something like "makeOSSpecific", you can get reuse. The first parameter would be the base class name, so you'd call it from "new" something like: return Factory::makeOSSpecific( "ProcInfo", $self ). There would be no need to include Factory in the class hierarchy, you'd just require or use it in ProcInfo.

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