The Proc::Short is intended to be an extension of the backticks operator in PERL which incorporates a number of options, including collecting STDOUT and STDERR separately -- plus timeout and automatic retries. A new process object is created by $mypr...

This module lets you parallelise a perl program using the "fork", "exit", "wait" and "waitpid" calls as usual but without taking care of creating too many processes and overloading the machine. It redefines perl "fork", "exit", "wait" and "waitpid" c...

This module can execute an external process, monitor its state, get its results and, if needed, kill it prematurely and remove its results. There are, of course, many modules that cover similar functionality, including functions directly built-in in ...

Proc::BackOff is a base module meant to be directly inherited from and then modified by overloading the calculate_back_off object method. Use: Proc::BackOff::Linear, Proc::BackOff::Random, or Proc::BackOff::Exponential. Any success "$obj->success()" ...

A new process object is created by $myproc = Proc::Reliable->new(); The default will run a subprocess only once with a 60-second timeout. Either shell-like command lines or references to perl subroutines can be specified for launching a process in ba...