Upstream changes:
1.31 (2012/11/17)
(ms) To better deal with the race condition in the
previous release, kill the newly created child
process first, then send a killpg to its process
group and ignore the outcome.
(ms) [RT 81203] Jim A Kessler reported a perl 5.16 issue
with the "AutoLoader" line, so I went ahead and removed
all references to "Exporter" and "AutoLoader", as
Proc::Simple isn't using them at all.
Changes from previous:
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From 1.29:
[RT 69782] Zefram reported race condition in t/sh-c.t,
fixed by adding polling loop.
Found that kill(-sig, pid) sometimes fails with
'process id not found' although a previous kill(0, pid)
succeeded. This is a race condition condition caused
by a newly forked child that hasn't called setsid() yet
and therefore its new process group id doesn't exist yet,
although the child responds to poll(). kill() now
deals with this case.
From 1.28:
[RT 69103] Typo fix by Salvatore Bonaccorso
Added support for processes called via 'sh -c' by
system() (see "Shell Processes" note in the manpage).
From 1.27:
[RT 62802] Pod fix by Salvatore Bonaccorso
[RT 63833] Applied patch to stop reaping PIDs of
no longer existing processes (submitted by perlbotics).
Added licensizer
[RT 63833] (second part) Added cleanup() class method
to delete timing data of reaped processes, avoiding
infinite memory growth on long-running processes
From 1.26: [RT 62285] Pod fix for redirect_output()
Fixed github link
pkgsrc changes:
- Adding license information
- Remove workarounds for the crap of the last version
Update changes:
from 1.25: Localize special variables so that the exit status
from waitpid doesn't leak out, causing exit status
to be incorrect (RT33440, fixed by Brad Cavanagh).
Pkgsrc changes:
o Change MAINTAINER to pkgsrc-users@
o Fix HOMEPAGE to use search.cpan.org pointing directly to the package
Upstream changes:
from 1.22: Applied patch by Jeff Holt, providing start
and end time of the forked process via t0() and t1().
from 1.21: Added patch by Chip Capelik to provide a wait()
method waiting for a process to terminate.
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.
