[Chicago-talk] Script design question

[Jay Strauss]

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 6:24 pm, Young, Darren wrote:
> Looking for some input on a script before I sit down and try to create
> it. The basic need is to launch 4 system commands (at the same time) and
...
> Am I talking about using threads in this case or am I over-engineering
> what I want done? I've done plenty of whil(<PIPE>) stuff previously but
> only on a single process.
>
> Any thoughts on this would be very appreciated.


Sounds like a job for POE.  

http://search.cpan.org/~rcaputo/POE-0.3202/lib/POE.pm

Jay