Dear Monks,

I have a script which forks 3 childs at a given time and this is taken care by Proc::Queue.
Everything worked fine until I moved the line "next if" above the Proc::Queue::run_back_now{} method

After the above change the script spawns unlimited childs. For example, I have an array of 50 files
the script spawns 50 childs.

Is this the problem of Proc::Queue or is this script error. Below is my code
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use POSIX 'WNOHANG';
use Proc::Queue ':all';
use Getopt::Long 'GetOptions';
my $numChilds=3;
GetOptions(
    'childs|c=i'    => \$opt_numChilds
,   'help|h'        => \&USAGE
) || USAGE() ;

($opt_numChilds) ? $numChilds=$opt_numChilds : $numChilds;
Proc::Queue::size($numChilds); #update
my $src="/data/files";
my @allfiles = ("$src/file1", "$src/file2", "$src/file3","$src/file4",
+"$src/file5","$src/file6");
my $log = "/tmp/data.log";
open(STAT, $log) || die ("Can't open file $log: $!");
my @pids;
foreach my $file (@allfiles) {
    my ($root=$file);
    ($root=$file)=~tr/a-z/A-Z/;
     next if (!-f"$srcdir/ok");

    push @pids, Proc::Queue::run_back_now{
        #code here
        system("dataload.pl -file $file > file.err 2>&1");
    };
    
}
waitpids(@pids);
    
close STAT;

exit;

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Many thanks

In reply to Is this Proc::Queue error by chanakya

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