Re: forks.pm good (but noisy!)

At 20:17 -0500 4/1/03, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
>Just when I was getting ready to give up on perl for threaded
>applications
>(and I really like perl in general) I tried forks.pm.

I'm glad you're not giving up on Perl.


>I don't see segfaults, i don't get weird locking problems, it just works as
>advertised...  I was quite sceptical given that there are only 2 revisions
>on CPAN but (at least for me) this module is superior to all the others
>I mentioned above.

Thank you for your kind words.


>THANKS Elizabeth! (i feel we're on a first name basis since you've
>helped me
>so much by writing your module - i hope you don't mind)

No problem, Bradley.  ;-)


>One side note - i do get thousands of lines of
>Use of uninitialized value in eval "string" at
>/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0/forks.pm line 990.
>as my program runs.

Hmmm... must be something specific that you do with forks.pm.  In any 
case, I've hopefully silenced this in version 0.03 which is on its 
way to CPAN now.


>I can't stand to look at this another minute right now so I don't know
>what's causing that - but i thought i should probably report it...

Thanks for the report.


>many thanks!

You're welcome.  Glad you like the module.


>(PS I originally tried to post this message via nntp but it never made
>it to the group...)

Well, I don't do NNTP, so that's just as well...


Liz