Re: Forks

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandriva com>]

jeffrey ratcliffe gmail com writes:

> 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?

AFAIK it's unused in Mandriva (aka no package requires it)