The Proc::Simple package provides objects mimicing real-life processes from a user's point of view. A new process object is created by $myproc = Proc::Simple->new(); Either external programs or perl subroutines can be launched and controlled as proce...

This module lets you fork off code that does not require synchronous execution in a simple way. It's syntactically similar to implementations of the async function found in other modules such as forks, threads, and even Coro. Unfortunately, all those...

This module provides an intuitive, Perl-ish way to write forking programs by letting you use blocks to illustrate which code section executes in which fork. The code for the parent, child, retry handler and error handler are grouped together in a "fo...

Proc::DaemonLite is a basic server daemonisation module that trys to cater for most basic Perl daemon requirements. The POD for this module is incomplete, as is some of the tidying of the code. It is however fully functional. This is a pre-release in...

Proc::Pidfile is a very simple OO interface which manages a pidfile for the current process. You can pass the path to a pidfile to use as an argument to the constructor, or you can let Proc::Pidfile choose one ("/$tmpdir/$basename", where $tmpdir is ...

Proc::Lite is a lightweight, easy-to-use wrapper around Proc::Hevy. It is meant to provide a simple interface for common use cases....

This module provides a simple routine, "proc_exists()", to check a process' existence by name, something that is commonly done in shell scripts using: ps ax | grep name pgrep name and also some routines, "find_*()", to list processes matching some cr...

Proc::Hevy is a simplistic module for spawning child processes in a synchronous manner. It provides a simple interface for passing data to a process's "STDIN" while also offering several methods for buffering "STDOUT" and "STDERR" output....

Proc::Class is a simple OO wrapper for IPC::Open3, POSIX.pm, and more. THIS MODULE IS IN ITS BETA QUALITY. THE API MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE...

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 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 ...

This module branches the current process into multiple processes when the object is created. Internally, perl function "fork" is used....

A simple, portable, and fast module for checking whether a process exists or not, regardless of whether it is a child of this process or has the same owner. On POSIX systems, this is implemented by sending a 0 (test) signal to the pid of the process ...

These functions provide a simple way to read from or write to commands which are run without being interpreted by the shell. They croak if there's a system failure, such as a failed fork. POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, whi...

This code implements a simple but effective mechanism to support Watchdogs in your code. A watchdog is a timer that fires a determined action after a timeout period has expired and can be used to recover hung processes. In our particular scenario, we...

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...

Generic queue of "jobs". Most likely to be subclassed for different situations. Jobs are registered. Hosts are registered. Jobs may or may not be tied to particular hosts. Jobs are started on hosts. Jobs may or may not have dependencies on each other...