Forks

[jeffrey ratcliffe gmail com]

Searching for a simple method of running separate processes without ignoring muppet's constant advice not to use threads, I stumbled upon forks[1] (a drop-in replacement to threads using forks, including shared variables), which seems an excellent solution.

What makes me suspicious, however, is that a 6-year-old module does not seem to have been packaged by Debian or Fedora, although Mandriva seems to have one[2].

Does anyone have any experience of this module?

Regards

Jeff

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~rybskej/forks/lib/forks.pm
[2] http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl-forks