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p5-Proc-Fork-0.808

simple, intuitive interface to the fork() system call

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Description

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 "fork block".

Package information

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

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