Revision history for Perl extension Parallel::Forker
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*** Add ::Forker process method. [by Niels van Dijke]
*** Add ::Process state and state_stats methods. [by Niels van Dijke]
**** Fix rsh test failure.
**** Use Test::More to simplify test failure debugging.
** Add reap_processes and reap to reclaim memory. [by Muir Manders]
*** Fix memory leak. [by Muir Manders]
**** Fix Pod::Usage dependency, rt51024. [Andreas Koenig]
**** Documentation updates.
** This package is now licensed under LGPL v3 and/or Artistic v2.0.
**** Fix ignore files to support GIT.
*** Add in_parent method and recommend usage, rt40886. [Ton Voon]
*** Run processes in sorted rather than hash order. [Bryce Denney]
**** Reorganize kit to use lib directory, for easier standalone use.
*** Warn, but allow users to set SIG{CHLD}='IGNORE'. [Kevin Montuori]
**** Warn if use_sig_child is undefined, as need to know if on or off.
**** Report error if create or schedule a task, and the same name exists.
**** Documentation cleanups. [Bryce Denney]
**** Add use_sig_child method, and accelerate poll. [Darrell Bishop]
**** Fix hang in applications that call poll without sig_child.
This broke in 1.212 and 1.213. [Venkataramana Mokkapati]
**** Internal refactoring of poll and wait_all routines.
**** Documentation cleanups. [Darrell Bishop]
**** Extend poll() to allow multiple processes to complete. [Darrell Bishop]
This means poll() has no return value; the old return was undocumented.
**** Fix kill_tree causing _subprocesses error message
*** Internal reorganization of modules and comments.
**** Remove Schedule::Load dependency. [Alan Burlison]
*** Add last-run PID number to write_tree output file. [Jeff Dutton]
*** Fix poll() setting activity with no runnable processes. [Jeff Dutton]
** First public release.
** Support running processes when other processes fail.
** First created
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