On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:48, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote: > On 2011-12-18 08:43, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> On 18 Dec 2011, at 02:57, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >>> If all you need is to return results of a discrete bit of work to the >>> parent, Parallel::ForkManager makes it trivial. >> >> And the best way to return those results...? > > Unless the exit code is information enough: > I like to call it "merge results", and involve a database.
Ah, OK. I was hoping for some magic my 30 years of Unix had overlooked :)