run_parallel looks about right. Thanks much. We're looking for something fairly task-specific vs. a framework for larger project. POE::Component::Child looks about right, but I also need to explain this to an intern!
At 10:08 AM 6/15/2007 -0400, Charlie Reitzel wrote: >Hi All, > >I'm looking for a Perl module to do process management. We're building a >test harness and need to fire up a number of client traffic generators and >wait for them all to finish. > >A wrinkle is that we need to report if _any_ of the spawned processes exit >with an error status. So the normal bash/ksh wait command won't work, as >it only reports the exit status of the last child to finish. > >Shouldn't matter, per se, but it may be worth mentioning that these >processes will typically be ssh script execution on a remote box. At this >point, I hoping to keep the client requirements down to SSH/Cygwin. > >Thanks for any info and pointers, >Charlie > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

