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p5-Parallel-Forker-1.260

parallel job forking and management

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Description

Parallel::Forker manages parallel processes that are either subroutines or system commands. Forker supports most of the features in all the other little packages out there, with the addition of being able to specify complicated expressions to determine which processes run after others, or run when others fail.

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Ports path
devel/p5-Parallel-Forker
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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