I've got a wee problem with one of my modules on Windows: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6c50e2a4-6c0f-1014-988b-f0c2162c787f
However, I don't have a Windows licence, nor do I know how to drive Windows, nor, to be blunt, do I particularly want to learn. But if anyone could help me make my code more portable I'd be very grateful. The code in my module that has the problem starts at line 186 here: https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-CPAN-ParseDistribution/blob/master/lib/CPAN/ParseDistribution.pm#L186 Its purpose is to run arbitrary code in a Safe.pm compartment, and to have that compartment time out if it takes more than 5 seconds. It does this using Parallel::ForkManager to run the Safe compartment in a child process. The child may return data to the parent via some magic in Parallel::ForkManager which is effectively a wrapper around Storable. Stuff that assumes a Unixy world, other than fork()ing in the first place, is the kill() on line 194. I presume that the 17-ish lines starting at 186 will need to be completely different for Windows. If anyone can help, the beers are on me at the next YAPC we're both at! -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Human Rights left unattended may be removed, destroyed, or damaged by the security services.
