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Perl module P223
Interprocess Communication
Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P223. This topic is presented on public course Perl Extra

Overview

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Controlling multiple asynchronous processes in Perl

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3940Run other processes from within your Perl program
There are several ways in Perl that you can run another process from within your Perl program: 1. You can use a system call, which runs the other process independently and returns to you when it has completed. You can check the completion status of the system call by examining $?. Before it runs, ...
2012-12-08
 
3412Handling binary data in Perl is easy!
Perl can handle binary data just as easily as ASCII text - but YOU - if you're the programmer - must understand the format of the data that you'll be working with. With binary data it's every bit as important to get the right bytes in the right places as it is to get the appropriate separators between ...
2011-08-30
 
3010Children, zombies, and reaping processes
What is "Reaping Processes"? Most programs are single processes - you write a program that runs sequentially from start to finish, interrupted only by the controls of conditionals like if, loops like while and subroutines / functions / methods, and you can always look at a program and say "it's HERE ...
2010-10-29
 
3011What are .pid files?
wizard:run graham$ ls *.pid DirectoryService.pid configd.pid diskarbitrationd.pid hdiejectd.pid httpd.pid mds.pid ntpd.pid racoon.pid syslog.pid wizard:run graham$ When a process that needs to be contacted / alerted by other processes is started, it often records its process id (PID) into a ".pid file" ...
2010-10-23
 
2970Perl - doing several things at the same time
What if you want a Perl process to go off in two different directions at the same time - perhaps a server that's going to handle several connections at the same time, or an application that's going to be doing heavy processing, but at the same time has to respond to inputs from elsewhere, such as the ...
2010-09-25
 
2694Multiple processes (forking) in Python
What is forking If you want a process to head off in two different directions, you can fork it. That results in identical copies of the process being created - the original (parent) and the copy (child), each with their own complete set of variables, and program counter, etc. The clever thing is that ...
2010-03-25
 
1918Perl Socket Programming Examples
It's always a pleasure to run private courses - for when a questions that's a little bit away from the normal comes up, I can take time to provide a full answer and demonstration without fear of loosing delegates from other companies who have no interest. And so it was today - I have two examples, plus ...
2008-12-03
 
604Perl - multiprocess applications
There are times that you'll be writing an application that you want to go off and perform task "x" and AT THE SAME TIME have it perform task "y", co-ordinating task "y" with task "x". Threading (NOT the subject covered here) is one possible approach. And another possible approach is forking. How does ...
2006-06-05
 
Examples from our training material
breadknife   Forking a process, then the two communicating
breeder   Parent forking multiple independent children
butter   Send a signal to a registered process
check   Expect - choreographing multiple pings and analysing result
dodo   running another process from Perl
f1.pl   Forking a process
fdem   Forking in Perl, then communicating between processes
h_report   Two processing in parallel (via fork) communicating (via a pipe)
kidgoes   Children signalling to parents as they complete
knife   fork and two separate processes
nonfat   A process that responds to signals
pinga2   Parallel (forked) processes communicating via signals and files
pinga3   Parallel (forked) processes communicating via signals and pipes
pingalong   Parallel (forked) processes communicating via pipes
pingpong   piping from another process
talker   Simple talker written in Perl
two_roles   Forking in Perl - two processes
Pictures
Forking a Perl Process, and pipe
Background information
Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].
Topics covered in this module
Overview.
forks.
Parent and child communications.
Pipes.
Other ways of communicating.
Signals.
pid files.
Transferring information.
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