Thanks Liz, Forks does exactly what I wanted to do.
-Aku On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Aku Kauste <aku.kau...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Well, obviously this doesn't work and I end up getting "child pid >>> XXXXX exit signal Segmentation fault (11)" type errors. >>> >>> Is my aproach completely wrong? What would be the right way to solve >>> this kind of a problem? >> >> I believe what you're doing should work, but I don't use threads for >> anything. I'd probably fork and put the results in a database table >> or file. > > If you like the threads API, you might want to take a look at the "forks" > module on CPAN. It provides the threads API using fork(), and hence does > not have many of the problems that native Perl ithreads have. > > > Liz >
