Package: wnpp Owner: Mason James <m...@kohaaloha.com> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : libchild-perl Version : 0.013 Upstream Author : Chad Granum <exod...@cpan.org> * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Child * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Object oriented simple interface to fork() Fork is too low level, and difficult to manage. Often people forget to exit at the end, reap their children, and check exit status. The problem is the low level functions provided to do these things. Throw in pipes for IPC and you just have a pile of things nobody wants to think about. Child is an Object Oriented interface to fork. It provides a clean way to start a child process, and manage it afterwords. It provides methods for running, waiting, killing, checking, and even communicating with a child process. NOTE: kill() is unpredictable on windows, strawberry perl sends the kill signal to the parent as well as the child. The package will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Perl Group. -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.