Re: Help needed

Hi Arnold,

Thanks for your reply.

The OS in which I am running perl is on Windows 2000.  Further, I dont was
to use any UI interface for input/output.  Basically, there are set of
independent activities which I should be performing everyday as a backup.
Now presently I have one perl script which does this in sequence.  This
takes longer time to finish (almost 8 hrs).  Now I wanted to use threads and
perform the tasks in parallel so that it finished sooner.  While doing this,
to know which thread did what and what was its error/output messages, I
wanted to run them(threads) in separate shell window.  Hope I am a bit clear
this time in explaining what I wanted.

Any thoughts?

Appreciate your help.

Thanks and regards
BTR Naidu

On 2/7/07, Dean Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> BTR Naidu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to write a perl script in which there are 10 threads created
> and
> > all these 10 threads should be executed in 10 different command window.
> > The
> > thread is running under windows.
> >
> > Did lot of google but no info on the same.  Can anybody help me in
> solving
> > this?
> >
>
> You failed to mention which OS you're targeting ?
>
> With some effort, a Perl/Tk UI might be a reasonable
> alternative; but you'll need to run Perl/Tk in its
> own thread, and use a Thread::Queue (or Thread::Queue::Duplex)
> to communicate between the threads and the UI widgets.
>
> Pseudocode-wise:
>
> create 10 Thread::Queue's
> Start Perl/TK in a thread
>         Perl/Tk creates 10 TopLevel text widgets
>         Perl/Tk polls the queues for activity
>
> start 10 threads, handing each their own queue
>
> Alternately, on Win32, you might start 10 cmd.exe's via
> Win32::Process, and communicate via pipes. I'm certain there's
> an equivalent in *nix using /dev/tty or somesuch, but my
> POSIX system programmer skills are a bit rusty.
>
> Dean Arnold
> Presicient Corp.
>



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BTR Naidu
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