Re: POE and perl fork interaction

It's not clear what you're trying to do, but I suspect that you're doing 
it wrong.  :(

Is there a reason why you don't use POE::Wheel::Run to tail the files?

There's also:

http://search.cpan.org/~rcaputo/POE-1.003/lib/POE/Wheel/FollowTail.pm

I suspect that your forked tail process may have events queued from the 
parent, as outlined in POE::Wheel::Run section on Nested POE Kernels.

Good luck.

Rob


Deven Parekh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to use POE and the fork function in the same script.
> I am running into an interaction problem where the POE::Kernel does not
> return if i have forked off other process outside of the POE. Any input on
> what I may be doing wrong
>
> Here is the psuedo code logic of my script
>
> #--- Call a function to fork off a process to start tailing some files
> #--- store its the above pids so we can terminate later
>
> #--- Call POE::Wheel::Run to do some task
>
> #--- After the above POE task returns kill the tailing process
>
>
> If i do not do the forking for tailing files, the POE::Kernel returns after
> the
> task is completed, but if I fork of the tailing process as above,
> the POE::Kernel never returns.
>
> Any input will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> BR
>   DP
> p.s: I thought i had read about this interaction somewhere in documentation
> but am not
>       able toget to it to follow discussion around it, if any.
>
>