>> Fritz... why don't you just "fork" the report generation ?
> Because we have already developed V2. It is NOT a simple task to
> "fork" in all platforms. Especially not in Windows. Therefore a lot of
> work went into the multithreading version.
Uh ?!?
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $pid = fork();
if (not defined $pid) {
# uhm
print "resources not available.\n";
} elsif ($pid == 0) {
# this is the child code, here we'd call
# the report generation function which
# will run in a separate, child process
print "ASSP (child): generating reports\n";
sleep 5;
print "ASSP (child): reports generated\n";
exit(0);
} else {
print "ASSP (main): Report generation running...\n";
# wait not needed in ASSP, just for demo...
# in assp we'll keep doing our job while
# the forked child will process the emails
# and generate the reports
waitpid($pid,0);
}
print "All done\n";
the above works w/o problems in windows, and I suspect it should
work well on Linux, MacOSX and others, and well... implementing
such a simple "fork" shouldn't be so complex in 1.x; again I'm not
referring to multithreading, just to fork child processes if and when
needed (e.g. to handle report generation and similar "batch" tasks)
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