[Chicago-talk] fork and talk to the parent

[Jay Strauss]

Ok, i built perl 5.8.2 from source in /opt/perl/perl5.8.2/bin

Is there anyway to use all the modules I've downloaded from cpan over the
months in this new version?

Thanks
Jay


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Lembark" <lembark at wrkhors.com>
To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] fork and talk to the parent


>
>
> -- Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com>
>
> > Ok, I guess I was too unspecific
> >
> > the parent will be in an infinite loop.  The forked child will be
sitting
> > (also in a infinite loop) listening on a socket.  When the child gets a
> > message from the socket, based on the message, it may need to send that
> > data to the parent.
>
> Why not thread it? You can exchange info by assigning it
> to shared variables.
>
>
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