Dan,
Thanks for the response. I built perl 5.8.2 and have been playing with
threads and shared variables. It seems to be more to my needs
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jay Strauss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: fork and talking to parent
> Hi Jay,
>
> Have you played with POE::Wheel::Run? It seems suited to what you're
> doing: "Wheel::Run spawns child processes and establishes non-blocking,
> event based communication with them."
>
> Give that a try and let us know how you fare.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:09, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have this process that forks, the child opens up a socket and listens
(in
> > a while loop).
> >
> > When the child reads something, it calls the appropriate sub to handle
the
> > message (tickPrice for example). Once I'm in tickPrice(), I'd like to
send
> > some data back to the parent.
> >
> > 1) is the a proper use of POE.
> >
> > I figured I'd use POE::Component::Client::TCP in the child and
> > POE::Component::Server::TCP in the parent. After looking at the docs
for
> > POE::Component::Client::TCP, and the cookbook. I don't see how I could
send
> > a message back to the parent.
> >
> > I know there is:
> > $heap->{server}->put(@things_to_send);
> >
> > But I don't know how I'd get the value of $heap into my subroutine?
Since
> > there was no POE event.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jay
> >
>
>
>
