perl-Proc-Simple

The Proc::Simple package provides objects mimicing real-life processes from
a user's point of view. A new process object is created by
$myproc = Proc::Simple->new();
Either external programs or perl subroutines can be launched and controlled
as processes in the background.
A 10-second sleep process, for example, can be launched as an external
program as in
$myproc->start("/bin/sleep 10");    # or
   $myproc->start("/bin/sleep", "10");
or as a perl subroutine, as in
sub mysleep { sleep(shift); }    # Define mysleep()
   $myproc->start(&mysleep, 10);   # Launch it.
or even as
$myproc->start(sub { sleep(10); });
The start Method returns immediately after starting the specified process
in background, i.e. there's no blocking. It returns 1 if the process has
been launched successfully and 0 if not.
The poll method checks if the process is still running
$running = $myproc->poll();
and returns 1 if it is, 0 if it's not. Finally,
$myproc->kill();
terminates the process by sending it the SIGTERM signal. As an option,
another signal can be specified.
$myproc->kill("SIGUSR1");
sends the SIGUSR1 signal to the running process. kill returns 1 if it
succeeds in sending the signal, 0 if it doesn't.
The methods are discussed in more detail in the next section.
A destructor is provided so that a signal can be sent to the forked
processes automatically should the process object be destroyed or if the
process exits. By default this behaviour is turned off (see the
kill_on_destroy and signal_on_destroy methods).

          

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License: GPL-1.0+ or Artistic-1.0
URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-Simple/