Re: [MacPerl] spoofing multiple processes in MacPerl

[kpreid@ibm.net (Kevin Reid)]

> Hello
> after struggling for a little while on the issue of MacPerl not
> supportting multiple invocations,  as in the case of trying to run
> multiple droplets,  I was wondering if it would be possible to have
> these processes mimicked in subroutine calls.  For example . . . a text
> file could contain parameters to provide control to the droplet.
> 
> maybe its a stretch, but could this be a reasonable approach to multiple
> processes?
> 
> while ( $value <= $limit ) {
> 
>     if ($value = something) {
>         &start_process_one
>     }
> 
>     if ($value = another_thing) {
>         &start_process_two
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> sub start_process_one {
>     do some stuff
> }
> 
> sub start_process_two {
>     do some stuff
> }

Yes, this is certainly possible, and in fact I have written a module to
do it. It's called Mac::Multitask, and it allows you to do basically
what your example code shows, but you can effectively run multiple
programs at once. However, it is not yet ready to be released.

-- 
  Kevin Reid.      |         Macintosh.
   "I'm me."       |      Think different.

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