Proc::Spawn runs external programs, like ls and telnet. The process id of the spawned programs and IO::Handle objects are returned. The spawn function should be used for most purposes. It returns three IO::Handle objects for stdin, stdout, and stderr...

The purpose of this small (in scope and footprint) module is simple: spawn a subprocess asynchronously as efficiently and/or fast as possible. Basically the same as calling fork+exec (on POSIX), but hopefully faster than those two syscalls. Apart fro...

Proc::Topus spawns one or more worker processes from one or more worker groups. Each worker process is pre-allocated a pair of filehandles for communicating with the initial master process. An intermediate loader process is also created in order to t...

This module contains functions for synchronized process spawning with full error return. If the child's exec() call fails the reason for the failure is reported back to the parent. These functions will croak() if they encounter an unexpected system e...

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::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...

This module provides some fairly fine control over heavy-duty multiprocessing work. This is probably most useful in two general cases: a multi-CPU system that doesn't distribute load in a single process across all CPUs, and programs that need to do a...

Some Perls under Microsoft windows suffers disabilities over Unix Perls. One particular disability is a backtick without the console. Altough the Microsoft console, may be started without a window (start command with /b option or spawn program call),...

Proc::Safetynet is a utility framework for building programs that supervises or "babysits" other processes. Supervision tasks can include process management (start / stop) and program provisioning (add / remove applications). Proc::Safetynet is espec...

This is a generic interface for placing processes in the background on both Unix and Win32 platforms. This module lets you start, kill, wait on, retrieve exit values, and see if background processes still exist....

This Perl module is useful for writers of daemons and other processes that need to tell whether they are already running, in order to prevent multiple process instances. The module accomplishes this via *nix-style *pidfiles*, which are files that sto...

This is a factory object that creates POE::Component::Supervisor::Handle::Proc objects....