Re: Creating a Windows service

2005-07-21 Thread Angus McIntyre
At 15:01 +0300 21.07.2005, Octavian Rasnita wrote: I would like to create a Windows service in Perl. Is it possible, or I am able just to run/stop/pause services created in other languages? If yes, please give me some hints and tell me what modules to use. You can run Perl programs as services

RE: fork() and ithreads in AS Perl 5.8.6

2005-07-13 Thread Angus McIntyre
At 8:24 -0600 13.07.2005, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You must REAP your children ... Excellent advice, thank you. I did what you suggested, and it seems to have resolved the problem completely. Thanks, Angus ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-W

RE: fork() and ithreads in AS Perl 5.8.6

2005-07-13 Thread Angus McIntyre
At 13:13 +0100 13.07.2005, Paul Sobey wrote: Has anyone had any experience in writing multi-threaded processes on Windows using libwww-perl? ... One method that works well for me is to start a fixed number of worker threads when you script starts, then feed jobs to them from your main thread.

fork() and ithreads in AS Perl 5.8.6

2005-07-12 Thread Angus McIntyre
I'm writing a Perl program to run on Windows platforms (Win2K and WinXP). whose job is to manage concurrent downloads using libwww-perl (LWP). The basic model is that a manager process checks continuously against a task list (actually a directory containing task files) and launches a sub-proces