[Gllug] Forking (Perl)

[Doug Winter]

Luke Hopkins (Broadbean) wrote:
> Is this a simple use of fork()?

You don't want to be spawning loads of other processes for this, I 
think.  You might want to use threads, but on the whole threads are evil 
and should be avoided.

I'd say this was what select() was made for, although it can make the 
coding more difficult, since you need to make everything event-driven.

Joel Bernstein suggested POE elsewhere, and it might be exactly what you 
need, since (if I understand it correctly) it's basically a framework 
around a select() farm.

Cheers,

doug.

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