Parallel::ForkManager Perl Module documentation

What is it?

This module is written for people who wanted to do independent tasks parallelly, but wants to control how many task they are running. Typical usage is a mass-download. The [ Manual ] tells more about it.

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TODO File

- Test, test, test

Changes file

Revision history for Perl extension Parallel::ForkManager.

0.7.5 Wed Dec 25 23:54:46 CET 2002
	- Documentation fixes
	- Fix bug if you specify max_procs = 0

0.7.4 Thu Jul  4 23:00:46 CEST 2002
	- on_wait callback now runs from the wait_all_children method
	- run_on_wait can run a task periodically, not only once.

0.7.3 Wed Oct 24 01:25:36 CEST 2001
	- minor bugfix on calling the "on_finish" callback

0.7.2 Mon May 14 15:38:55 CEST 2001
	- win32 port
	- fix for the broken wait_one_child

0.7.1 Thu Apr 26 13:28:30 CEST 2001
	- various semantical and grammar fixes in the documentation
	- on_finish now get the exit signal also
	- on_start now get the process-identification also
	- described limitations in the doc

0.7  Wed Apr  4 12:52:53 CEST 2001
	- callback code tested, exit status return (Chuck, dLux)
	- added parallel_get.pl, a parallel webget example (dLux)
	- added callbacks.pl, a callback example (Chuck, dLux)
	- documentation updtes (Chuck, dLux)

0.6  Thu Nov 30 11:56:15 CET 2000
	- documentation tweak fixes by Noah Robin
	- warning elimination fixes

0.5  Wed Oct 18 16:24:59 2000
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.19