[LA.pm] Parallel::Simple

Ofer Nave ofer at netapt.com
Sun Feb 27 13:23:43 PST 2005


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, James Keenan wrote:

> > On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Ofer Nave wrote:
> >
> >> After some polishing up, I'll write some tests for it and package it 
> >> up in
> >> the standard CPAN module format before uploading it.
> 
> I would add that testing is particularly important in this case because 
> of the considerable number of system calls which the module inherently 
> does.

There are only two - fork() and waitpid().  In fact, there are only four 
functions called in the entire module - those two plus exit() and eval().  
Actually, the docs make up 75% of the file.  :)

-ofer



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