try using perldoc Win32::Semaphore, it should help considerably.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Perl-Unix-Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:13 PM Subject: Hard Total amount of Forks > All, > > I wish to add forking to a script I wrote. > However I wish to ensure that only a configurable number of 'children' are > created. > > forking is no problem, > Queuing up things to be forked I can do, > > However is there an easy way to create a hard total, I was thinking the only > way is to have each fork write it's pid to a file, and delete it when it > dies, and the main parent simply counts the number of pid files in a > directory. if The Number is reached the parent may check with a kill=>1 on > each pid file just to check for non existing processes or possibly kill -9'd > processes. > > Or can I do it all in memory and have the parent control, maybe using > signals? > > Has anybody done something simillar, can anybody suggest other methods? > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
