Proc::Queue is ok?
- Salva
--- "Andreas J. Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:22:25 +0200, "Perl
> Authors Upload Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> > The following module was proposed for inclusion
> in the Module List:
>
> > modid: Fork::Queue
> > DSLI: bmpf
> > description: limits number of concurrent
> forked processes
> > userid: SALVA (Salvador Fandiño García)
> > chapterid: 20 (Control_Flow_Utilities)
> > communities:
>
> > similar:
> > Parallel::ForkManager
>
> > rationale:
>
> > This module enqueue processes so the name
> should have something to
> > do with queues, and looking at CPAN it shows
> that there are several
> > modules named <something>::Queue
> (Thread::Queue, VMS::Queue,
> > MQSeries::Queue, etc.). The queued "objects"
> are processes, but I
> > also want to show that the module is
> constructed around the fork
> > (and related) function calls so I get with
> Fork::Queue.
>
> > The uniqueness of this module is that it
> overloads fork, wait,
> > waitpid, etc, function calls so that you can
> continue to use them as
> > usual and the module will take care of not
> running too much
> > processes at the same time. And already
> wrote scripts can be easily
> > adapted, just including the module at the
> beginning.
>
> > enteredby: SALVA (Salvador Fandiño García)
> > enteredon: Thu Apr 26 08:22:24 2001 GMT
>
> > The resulting entry would be:
>
> > Fork::
> > ::Queue bmpf limits number of
> concurrent forked processes SALVA
>
> As we're always trying to keep the number of
> toplevel namespaces as
> short as possible, I wonder if you could live with
> Proc::*?
>
> --
> andreas
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